as in echos
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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Recent Examples of rubber-stamps
Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
Americans' primary oversight entities—rather than rooting out waste and misconduct—now are poised to be rubber stamps for whatever administration is in power.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rubber-stamps
Verb
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Weaver emphasizes that support shouldn’t end once a candidate signs an offer.—
Alyshia Hull,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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After a judge signs a PPO, it must be served to the person it has been filed against.—
Nushrat Rahman,
Freep.com,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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By the end of the season, Unrivaled’s main accounts across six platforms reached nearly 400,000 followers, while its clubs added another 334,000 combined.—
Roberta F. Rodrigues,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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By then Kirk had amassed millions of followers across social media, and The Charlie Kirk Show became one of the most popular political podcasts in the country.—
Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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If time permits, lock your home upon departure and disconnect utilities and appliances.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Sep. 2025
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Phase 1 permits us to let our imaginations run free.—
Cherie Kloss,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Over millennia, marine animals have honed ears and sonar-like abilities to read their world in vibrations and echoes, turning the ocean into a place both alive with sound and fine-tuned to its subtleties.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
11 Sep. 2025
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But his spices aren’t the only things that have echoes of home.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 Sep. 2025
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Anthropic endorses new California AI bill.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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The Caucus faces another hurdle as Etherton acknowledged the organization needs to raise another $15,000 to implement alternative voting quickly after the October annual meeting if the membership endorses the proposal.—
Daniel I. Dorfman,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
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That instinct to merge craftsmanship with culture has kept him ahead of imitators.—
Janee Bolden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Build a content machine that runs so fast, followers see you as the source, not the imitators.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Both medical and recreational use are legal in Colorado, and New Mexico passed a law this year that legalizes certain medical uses.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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The bills with the most juice spring from a critical state audit of the Department of Health Care Services (which licenses and regulates non-medical addiction treatment centers).—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
4 Sep. 2025
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Resident 65-plus licenses $5 to $48, plus other fees.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Rubber-stamps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rubber-stamps. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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