facsimile

Example Sentences

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Fax machines - formally known as facsimile machines - used to be a familiar fixture in offices as well as schools, hospitals and police stations across the country.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

But in the meantime, seasonal enthusiasm for the house could be satisfied by a gingerbread facsimile thereof that was open to the public in Hollywood.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 29, 2025

It is to his credit that the cathedral is not a simulacrum or facsimile, but a Gothic building, in all its structural reality, even the invisible oak roof truss above the vaults.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

The chief complaint about pet parenting seems to be that it wastes valuable love that could go to a human child on a fuzzy facsimile of one, as though companionship is a zero-sum proposition.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2025

She addresses a woman whose aging face is less familiar to Yolanda than the child's facsimile.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez