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fax

[faks] / fæks /
NOUN
facsimile
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STRONG


VERB
copy
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The result is chaos, and a few too many jokes about young people not knowing how to work a fax machine or manage paper.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

It was a work phone with a small touch screen, email and fax capabilities and a scheduler; it weighed a full pound.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Elsewhere a number of trusts have fax machines in storage as an emergency back up in the event of other forms of communication going down.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

One hundred and eighty years after the first fax machines started grinding out messages, three NHS trusts in England are still using the technology.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

I learned that he could be reached at a fax number in Big Sky, Montana, so I sent him a fax.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston