Examples of fax in a Sentence
Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
The Chinese Embassy in Laos and the Chinese Foreign Ministry did not respond to requests for comment sent via email and fax.
—Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
Going through all these boxes, there’s photographs of the band, letters and faxes and legal documents and old tapes.
—Simon Reynolds, Pitchfork, 27 Sep. 2023
Hours later, on the morning of Monday, November 29, 1993, 43 pages of records from Stanislaus County scrolled out of the fax machine in the Petaluma command center.
—Time, 2 Oct. 2023
Police in Beijing’s Chaoyang district, believed to be handling the cases, hung up when CNN phoned for comment and a fax to the bureau did not go through.
—Simone McCarthy, CNN, 20 Apr. 2023
There weren’t fax machines and email, so there was no way of acquiring a script prior to an audition.
—Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 30 June 2023
In January 2022, Cash sent the hospital a fax demanding the immediate release of his client, a patient named Karla Adrian-Caceres.
—Laura Strickler, NBC News, 23 July 2023
Even the medical industry, which famously loves a fax machine, is slowly transitioning away from paper.
—Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
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Word History
by shortening & alteration
1937, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Fax.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fax. Accessed 6 Dec. 2023.
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