fax
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Hamawy had helped Abdel-Rahman translate a fax from Egypt and had been to the cleric’s apartment.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
For more than 60 years, he hopscotched among media, painting in oils, acrylics and watercolors, drawing, making prints and creating works on fax and copying machines as well as iPads and iPhones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The artist’s long career swept in artworks made not only on cameras and canvases, but on such things as fax machines and photocopiers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
“We fax over the power of attorney, the medical documents, and start acting immediately. These are the gaps no one plans for.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
“Shall I tell him you sent the fax to Summerhill?”
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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Mobile phone reception is patchy outside cities and people are still known to use faxes!
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
Cyrus, who doesn’t have a fax machine handy, said she has to pick up faxes at her lawyer’s office.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
Regence and Premera said they do fulfill those requirements, contacting providers through email, mail, phone calls and faxes to seek updated information, including whether they are accepting new patients.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
They are continuing their work, communicating with the senator through the phone, memos and faxes.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2023
For the next three years, businesses slowly and steadily bought more and more faxes, until, in 1987, enough people had faxes that it made sense for everyone to get a fax.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
I know this because every page of it was faxed to the newsroom where I worked shortly after the episode aired.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2025
The email, the outlet said, was faxed from a North American toll-free number that also appeared in court documents.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Sichuan Trust, the Sichuan provincial government and the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission did not respond to faxed and emailed requests for comment.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
While Katrina bore down on the Gulf Coast, a four-page document was apparently faxed and emailed to law-enforcement agencies in the region, and to National Guard units headed to the Gulf area.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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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
Borat is faxing back and forth with his premier.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2020
Since then, he has twice provided Washington’s Employment Security Department proof of his identity — by faxing and uploading copies of his Social Security and identification cards.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2020
Microsoft Windows 10 is an example of an operating system that comes with free faxing software built in.
From Encyclopedia.com ● Feb. 5, 2018
With the legal force of the Cache County Attorney’s Office, Rindlisbacher had been faxing Verizon in late January and early February.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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