How to Use rubber-stamp in a Sentence

rubber-stamp

1 of 2 verb

• The last time, when Iger picked Chapek, the board rubber-stamped it.
  — Kim Masters, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
• During the fall 2023 season, Gucci and Miu Miu were among the top brands who rubber-stamped the look.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2023
• And many say their view that results can’t be trusted should be reason enough not to rubber-stamp local vote counts.
  — Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• The county board was expected to give its rubber-stamp, final approval last fall, but the item was pulled from its agenda.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
• Every single one an Emmy winner rubber-stamped by the Globes.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
• Yet, just this week, Trump rubber-stamped the effort, and wants his party to pick up five seats if Texas redraws its Congressional maps.
  — ABC News, 18 July 2025
• If we are not allowed to hear and see candid responses from everyone, then Lee could be rubber-stamped as the next mayor.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2025
• Our nation is better off today because a handful of lawmakers had the courage to stand firm, dig deep, and refuse to rubber-stamp flawed policies.
  — Kevin Sabet, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
• 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
• Moment of the season… Sam Smith heading in Wrexham’s third goal against Charlton to rubber-stamp promotion.
  — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 3 May 2025
• The new board is almost certain to vote to fire Martinez, allowing Johnson to replace him with an appointee who will rubber-stamp the union’s demands.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 Oct. 2024
• But the academy’s directors branch hasn’t rubber-stamped the DGA’s slate since 2010, so someone’s probably out.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025
• A day earlier, Putin rubber-stamped a decree that could change the nuclear strike threshold observed by his nation's armed forces.
  — Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
• The 67-year-old hasn’t appeared in public for three weeks since the closing ceremony of the country’s rubber-stamp legislature on March 11.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025
• The idea was to bring working-class residents into government and turn the board into more than a rubber-stamping mechanism for the mayor.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Shi, who became the abbot of the Shaolin Temple in 1999 and was a member of China’s rubber-stamp parliament for two decades, has frequently appeared in the media spotlight.
  — Nectar Gan, CNN Money, 28 July 2025
• Thankfully, this time the BOC stood its ground and refused to rubber-stamp another variance request, an overdue act of resolve.
  — Darren MacK, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
• That means that a lazy human reviewer could rubber-stamp an AI ruling that a court can't overturn, experts suggested.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2024
• Skinner toes a gossamer line of attempting to understand the root of Roger’s pain, but stops short of rubber-stamping his bigotry and entitlement.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 13 June 2025
• Once the committee approves the candidate the Prime Minister can make a recommendation to the King, who will rubber-stamp the appointment.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
• Liverpool and Barcelona, currently occupying the top two spots in the table, are through to the play-offs at the very least, though both will be hoping to rubber-stamp their progress to the last 16 in the coming week by confirming a top-eight finish.
  — Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
• That's a decent-sized majority by modern standards, and most of those Republicans are loyal to Trump and likely to rubber-stamp all his picks.
  — Tia Yang, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
• The king theoretically selects this viceroy, but in reality, they are chosen by the prime minister and rubber-stamped by the palace.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 2 May 2025
• Last month, the North's rubber-stamp congress made no mention of the South, experts have noted, but Kim is unlikely to backtrack on his purge of unification symbols anytime soon.
  — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
• That phrasing, legal experts said, suggested that the judge was unlikely to rubber-stamp the government’s effort.
  — Jonah E. Bromwich, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
• When the film begins, Iman is tasked with rubber-stamping harsh sentences for protesters rallying in the streets against the authoritarian state.
  — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2024
• The three-day presidential vote starting on Sunday is expected to rubber-stamp Mr. el-Sisi’s hold for another six-year term: None of his three challengers stand a chance of unseating him.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• The City Council was expected to rubber-stamp the Commission’s denial a week later, but the project was removed from the agenda after the developer withdrew the proposal.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
• Ishiba will assume the nation’s top job on Oct. 1 following a rubber-stamp parliamentary vote.
  — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
• The county essentially rubber-stamped the reopening soon afterward—a far cry from what Musk had invited.
  — Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023

rubber stamp

2 of 2 noun

• The legislature has been nothing more than a rubber stamp for the President.
• That court is gonna be a rubber stamp for all of this kind of stuff.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 30 June 2022
• The rubber stamp is available in two sizes and comes with an ink pad.
  — Noma Nazish, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
• The technique uses a rubber stamp with a grid of tiny bumps on the bottom.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2020
• Some rubber stamps go missing from the office one night, and the new boy is the prime suspect.
  — María Gainza, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• At the moment the district council is just a rubber stamp.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2019
• Indeed, in Baseball, the appeal is a far cry from a rubber stamp.
  — Marc Edelman, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• If that doesn’t change in the days leading up to November 12th, the judge more than likely will give it the rubber stamp.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2021
• But The Post found that the review process effectively amounts to a rubber stamp.
  — Nate Jones, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• That does not make the FISC a rubber stamp, as ill-informed critiques deduce.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Dec. 2019
• None is a rubber stamp and could pose major problems in a second Trump term.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 31 Oct. 2024
• The fact that he was fired from Mar-A-Lago proves one thing: there is no oversight, just a rubber stamp congress.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
• That works out to be near the highest amount (in round numbers) that Team Biden can rubber stamp without Congress.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2021
• Instead, the board also voted 4-1 to rubber stamp the agreement.
  — oregonlive, 27 July 2021
• Danielson said that there's no reason for the City Council to rubber stamp anything.
  — Sara Pagones | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• But the mayor obviously felt confident enough about getting a rubber stamp to let the cat out of the bag.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 May 2025
• The executive board is often seen as a rubber stamp, and even more so the full membership.
  — Stephen Wade, Houston Chronicle, 24 Feb. 2018
• But all those images came from the same location on the original rubber stamp.
  — Kelsey Houston-Edwards, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2022
• Judge Kavanaugh would also act as a rubber stamp for President Trump’s fraud and abuse.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 11 July 2018
• Those prints are made by using the body casts essentially as rubber stamps.
  — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 3 Mar. 2025
• Instead, the Russian parliament, a rubber stamp for the Putin regime, moved only the upper limit, widening the range by three years, to 18 to 30.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Lamb has voted 93% of the time with Nancy Pelosi and will be a rubber stamp for the dangerous liberal policies.
  — Eric Bradner, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• The Board didn’t rubber stamp the extension and expects a more detailed report next meeting.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2021
• There, the press largely acts as a rubber stamp on behalf of oligarchs who run some of the least competitive companies in the world.
  — J.j. Colao, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• Perez denied accusations that the board had become the chief’s rubber stamp.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2019
• The three-term incumbent countered that Hutchison was a rubber stamp for Donald Trump.
  — Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times, 8 Oct. 2018
• All that was needed was a rubber stamp from the bloc’s political leaders.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
• The announcement will kick off months of talks that could take up to a year before the European Parliament rubber stamps the target.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• Biden, who knows a thing or two about being the loyal understudy after eight years in the role for Barack Obama, noted Harris was no rubber stamp.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 8 May 2025
• And North Carolina’s seat may be hurled into uncertain territories because the incumbent is not the rubber stamp the White House wants.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 7 May 2025