box-ticking
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Making transparency less about box-ticking and more about truly informing investors would be a real step forward.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
“I don’t think he’s just trying to compile a kind of box-ticking collection of vintage classics just as an ownership project. He loves the chase and he loves the romance and the stories.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
Right now in France, he told me, policing has become a box-ticking exercise of showing how many people each officer detains for questioning - to demonstrate he or she is working hard.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2023
Then they might tackle what is perhaps the problem of world premieres: that, as brief curtain-raisers unrelated to the rest of a concert, they tend to just read as perfunctory exercises in box-ticking.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2023
Some authors and publishers engage sensitivity readers as a box-ticking exercise and ignore the issues they raise.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2022
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