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fax

[faks] / fæks /
NOUN
facsimile
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STRONG


VERB
copy
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“I remember being with him when he received the news through a phone call — or maybe it was a fax machine,” Elsesser says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Hamawy had helped Abdel-Rahman translate a fax from Egypt and had been to the cleric’s apartment.

From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026

Mr. Hockney created carpets and stained-glass windows; designed sets and costumes for ballet and opera; and made work using such unusual tools as paper pulp and a fax machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Later, he mounted exhibitions with art created by photocopier and fax machine, carefully building vast pictures from single sheets of paper.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Our mess tent, a cavernous canvas structure, was furnished with an enormous stone table, a stereo system, a library, and solar- powered electric lights; an adjacent communications tent housed a satellite phone and fax.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Back in December 2018, Conservative health secretary Matt Hancock banned the NHS from buying new faxes and ordered a complete phase-out by April 2020.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

Physicians have been getting emails and faxes saying, “‘We’ve got Botox for cheaper, we’ve got filler for cheaper’ — and it’s all these unregulated places that don’t have any FDA oversight,” Johnson said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024

Yonhap cited police as suspecting the email might have come from a person who last year allegedly sent a number of similar threatening emails and faxes while claiming to be a Japanese lawyer.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2024

They are continuing their work, communicating with the senator through the phone, memos and faxes.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2023

Roger Horchow sent out a dozen faxes promoting his daughter’s friend’s new restaurant.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

It made a fortune in international long-distance calls in the 1980s as businesses faxed documents, bypassing FedEx.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

The New York Times reported in May that it had received a set of emails, faxed from a toll-free number, in choppy Luganda, a Bantu language widely spoken in Uganda.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024

The Chinese Foreign Ministry did not immediately answer faxed questions seeking comment on the report and its official policies toward Muslim minorities.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2023

Local authorities which the Global Times said were conducting the audits and probes in Henan, Hubei, Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces did not immediately respond to faxed requests from Reuters seeking comment.

From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023

Within ten minutes, the clerk had faxed over a birth certificate request form with no questions asked.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

Footballers' agents used faxing to secure the transfer of players, although the method has been retired by the Premier League.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2022

Naturally, each site has different hoops you have to jump through, such as sending an email, filling out a form, mailing or faxing a letter, or confirming your identity.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022

Borat is faxing back and forth with his premier.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2020

Sandler wrote the movie in 1993 with his former college roommate Tim Herlihy, faxing 10 pages at a time back and forth between New York and Los Angeles.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2019

I told him that Margaret would be faxing it to London first thing Monday morning.

From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg



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