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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Best of the Bee Gavin Newsom signs California housing bill.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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California is making historic strides today as @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom signs #SB79 — streamlining the building of more housing all across the Golden State.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Kurt Caz, a white South African social-media star with millions of followers across platforms, first gained popularity through filming his defiant tours of dangerous neighborhoods in countries such as Venezuela and Kenya.—
T. M. Brown,
New Yorker,
15 Oct. 2025
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As the leader of some 50 million Catholic followers in the United States, the Pope is perhaps the second-most influential American in the world.—
Connor Greene,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
Verb
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If time permits, lock your home upon departure and disconnect utilities and appliances.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Oct. 2025
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If time permits, disconnect utilities and appliances.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The echoes of this feeling resounded clearly three centuries later in the increasing disconnect between suburban mobility and localism.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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Taken together — lax credit standards resurfacing, leveraged firms falling out of favor, speculative flows unmoored from fundamentals — the echoes with past turning points are fanning a spirit of discipline among a cohort of big money managers.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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If the board endorses his proposal, King may then decide whether to propose regulations, which the Board of Commissioners would then weigh, according to the Health Department.—
Anna Clark,
ProPublica,
13 Oct. 2025
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The law also requires insurance plans to cover the vaccines the state endorses.—
Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The oud that launched a thousand imitators, and still outclasses them all.—
Adam Hurly,
Robb Report,
16 Oct. 2025
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Could Lightfighter – and the imitators likely to follow – even raise interest in track riding, in a world where modern sportbike performance long ago outpaced what could be exploited prudently on public roads?—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
7 Oct. 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
Verb
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Another possibility is that a third-party vendor partners with xAI or licenses its software, similar to how Microsoft fuels the ecosystem for Windows PCs.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
13 Oct. 2025
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The move came a few months after the Federal Aviation Administration, which licenses commercial rocket launches, approved in May for SpaceX to conduct as many as 25 Starship test flights a year.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
10 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Rubber-stamps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rubber-stamps. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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