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Synonyms: Noun
aper, copycat, copyist, echo, follower, imitator, wannabe (also wannabee)
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The legislature has been nothing more than a rubber stamp for the President. an author who was ultimately just another rubber stamp of HemingwayRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Your periodic reminder that Trump's culture of open corruption could not happen without a GOP rubber stamp Congress. — Umair Irfan, Vox, "Ryan Zinke to the oil and gas industry: “Our government should work for you”," 21 Sep. 2018 For countries that were under Moscow’s sway for decades after World War II and continue to face pressure from their huge eastern neighbor, putting a rubber stamp on Trump’s coziness to Putin might seem paradoxical, even shocking. — Michal Kranz, Vox, "Why Eastern European countries aren’t attacking Trump over NATO," 26 July 2018 The three-term incumbent countered that Hutchison was a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. — Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times, "Sen. Maria Cantwell, Susan Hutchison draw sharp, partisan contrasts in first U.S. Senate debate," 8 Oct. 2018 Senate Democrats threatened to filibuster Kavanaugh's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court, accusing him of being a political operative and rubber stamp for Bush. — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, "Winners and losers from Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination," 10 July 2018 China’s national parliament gave its rubber stamp of approval to a dizzying overhaul that will reverberate through the world’s second-largest economy for years. — Bloomberg.com, "Xi Is Just Getting Started After China’s Biggest Government Shakeup in Years," 20 Mar. 2018 Top financial and economic officials are expected to be reshuffled by the rubber stamp legislature, which Bloomberg reported last month might also enact a merger of the banking and insurance regulators. — Bloomberg.com, "Trump: Will Be Putting in a Lot More Circuit Judges," 23 Feb. 2018 Judge Kavanaugh would also act as a rubber stamp for President Trump’s fraud and abuse. — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, "Yale Law Students and Alumni Denounce School's Support of Brett Kavanaugh," 11 July 2018 But then, both have largely been rubber stamps on Trump’s cabinet and judicial appointees. — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, "The Fate of Abortion Rights in America May Now Lie With These Senators," 27 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rubber-stamp.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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