How to Use blank check in a Sentence

blank check

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  • Sanders has called the bill a blank check for the the microchip industry.
    — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 28 July 2022
  • The purse, valued at $60, contained $80 cash, gift cards and a blank check.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The Browns have more than $100 million in cap space and could place a blank check in front of Cousins and tell him to name the price.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The purse contained $80 cash, a blank check and several gift cards.
    — Bob Dohr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Disney no longer gets a blank check from Wall Street for streaming.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The setup is a kid on a bike gets hit by a rich guy who hands him a blank check to keep the kid from making a big deal of the hit-and-run.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 12 Nov. 2019
  • But not even offering agencies a blank check to take in more kids has worked.
    — Kaitlin Durbin, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Singh also said Gabe had an assistant fly to the Bahamas with a stack of blank checks for Singh to sign.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Don't sign blank checks that allow another person to fill in the amount.
    — Erika Pesantes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 21 June 2018
  • The era for signing the blank checks requested by the bureaucracy needs to come to an end.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • Aside from one or two key senators agreeing to a blank check for the Manhattan Project, Congress and the press were kept in the dark.
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 21 July 2023
  • Despite the term blank check, investors in SPACs do have some protections.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The reality is that U.S. aid to Israel has never been a blank check.
    — Dennis Ross, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Theft, Sandhurst Drive: Someone stole a blank check from a car parked in a driveway, forged the victim's signature and cashed the check for $600.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • For too long, Congress has given presidents a blank check to wage war.
    — Byron Tau, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Powell is accused of stealing roughly $3,000 worth of blank checks and cashing them at a liquor store.
    — Thomas Novelly, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2018
  • With Perot's blank check at hand, Giedraitis and his team went on to call every expert and scientist in their Rolodex.
    — Trisha Gopal, CNN, 30 Aug. 2020
  • Writing a blank check for faster, larger rate hikes is not the way to keep Californians in their homes.
    — Carmen Balber, The Mercury News, 18 June 2024
  • Israeli leaders would be wrong to anticipate that Trump will give them a blank check on Gaza.
    — Shalom Lipner, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2024
  • And there’s plenty of reason to be skeptical about handing a blank check over to the president.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 21 July 2022
  • So does this ruling mean that states have a blank check to start violating copyright law?
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2020
  • And who better to provide a blank check than mega-billionaires like Jeff Bezos?
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Ujiri said his decision is not about wanting a blank check to execute his plan.
    — Curtis Rush, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • Start-up CEOs tell Quartz they are swamped in offers from blank check companies seeking to take them public.
    — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Casados said the clause allowing the company to raise rates with 30 day's notice is not a blank check from the city to Waste Management.
    — Jaimy Jones, Houston Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2018
  • This meant that the towering creep everyone feared had a blank check written in the ink of raw cowardice and secrecy.
    — Bill Keane, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Trump avoided close scrutiny of much of his worst behavior and now has a blank check to meddle in the 2020 election with nearly a year left in his term.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 7 Feb. 2020
  • As a result of this opaque dynamic that exists nowhere else in the economy, hospitals have a blank check to price gouge.
    — Cynthia A. Fisher, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Victory wouldn’t even be the first blank check company focused on sports and media.
    — Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • My view is that a partnership needs to be a two-way street, not a one-way blank check with American taxpayer dollars.
    — ABC News, 31 Mar. 2024

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