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a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way an author who was ultimately just another rubber stamp of Hemingway

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However, board members act as little more than a rubber stamp for investigators’ determinations. Patrick Hendry, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024 The principal environmental approval recently obtained from the Northern Territory Government rubber stamps the building of a solar farm at Powell Creek with a clean energy generation capacity of up to 10 gigawatts, plus utility scale onsite storage. New Atlas, 17 July 2024
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Approval from the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission is still need to rubber-stamp the agreement. Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024 But weird can be good, especially at the Emmys, an awards show that tends to rubber-stamp nominees year after year. Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rubber stamp 

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