blank check
noun
1
: a signed check with the amount unspecified
2
: complete freedom of action or control : carte blanche
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Costner was still a movie star, but he was no longer being offered blank checks and full creative control.
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Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
In many ways, gave a blank check to Benjamin Netanyahu to enact a violent campaign of revenge and retribution that has led to the deaths of thousands of civilians.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
With the resolution, Congress handed the military a blank check to intervene.
—Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
Rather than granting Israel a blank check, as some American officials would seem to prefer, the U.S. ought to remind its ally that keeping open the possibility of a Palestinian state is crucial to that wider acceptance.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
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Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
In many ways, gave a blank check to Benjamin Netanyahu to enact a violent campaign of revenge and retribution that has led to the deaths of thousands of civilians.
—Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
With the resolution, Congress handed the military a blank check to intervene.
—Kristina Mani, The Conversation, 23 Sep. 2025
Rather than granting Israel a blank check, as some American officials would seem to prefer, the U.S. ought to remind its ally that keeping open the possibility of a Palestinian state is crucial to that wider acceptance.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Blank check.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blank%20check. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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