blank check
noun
1
: a signed check with the amount unspecified
2
: complete freedom of action or control : carte blanche
Examples of blank check in a Sentence
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Of course, Paramount didn’t reveal the budget either, although Chazelle presumably won’t get the same blank check to fund the upcoming movie.
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Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
The company merged with Digital World Acquisition Corp., a blank check company formed in 2020.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
And just providing a blank check, providing more bombs without getting assurances now about Rafah and not making this humanitarian disaster even worse and doing simple things right now to help people who are starving to death in Gaza, those seem to be simple request.
—ABC News, 31 Mar. 2024
Washington must not give the Taliban’s repression of women a blank check—especially because the deepening persecution of women will feed other kinds of extremism.
—Lisa Curtis, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
Digital World is a SPAC, also known as a blank check company.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
Which is why Kuntz, before his December promotion to general manager was announced, went to team owner Philip Anschutz and asked for a blank check this winter.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
Worries of a 'blank check' to polluters In recent years, the Century Aluminum plant in Hawesville received multiple state authorizations to discharge hundreds of thousands of gallons from a tailings pond for the facility, which gathers wastewater from the aluminum production process.
—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 23 Jan. 2024
Many blank checks have either called off their merger plans or extended their deadlines.
—Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 11 Apr. 2024
The company merged with Digital World Acquisition Corp., a blank check company formed in 2020.
—Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2024
And just providing a blank check, providing more bombs without getting assurances now about Rafah and not making this humanitarian disaster even worse and doing simple things right now to help people who are starving to death in Gaza, those seem to be simple request.
—ABC News, 31 Mar. 2024
Washington must not give the Taliban’s repression of women a blank check—especially because the deepening persecution of women will feed other kinds of extremism.
—Lisa Curtis, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
Digital World is a SPAC, also known as a blank check company.
—Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
Which is why Kuntz, before his December promotion to general manager was announced, went to team owner Philip Anschutz and asked for a blank check this winter.
—Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2024
Worries of a 'blank check' to polluters In recent years, the Century Aluminum plant in Hawesville received multiple state authorizations to discharge hundreds of thousands of gallons from a tailings pond for the facility, which gathers wastewater from the aluminum production process.
—Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 23 Jan. 2024
Many blank checks have either called off their merger plans or extended their deadlines.
—Byluisa Beltran, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
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“Blank check.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blank%20check. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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