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
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
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
“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
Then we have to ask my doctor to fax in a prescription.
From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper
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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
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
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China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn’t respond to a faxed request for comment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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 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 ministry did not respond to a faxed request for comment.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2023
Raleigh prepared the paperwork and faxed it over to the bondsman.
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
But that dependence also can lead to bureaucratic delays in essential functions, like reporting each new coronavirus infection by hand and faxing the details to the public health office.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2021
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
Every year we spend hundreds of dollars on phone calls and letters, writing, faxing, cajoling, and bribing, trying to get out of the pilgrimage to Mommy’s tiny house in Ewing.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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