paging

[pey-jing] / ˈpeɪ dʒɪŋ /

VERB

call for over communications system

Synonyms

STRONGEST

beep

STRONG

announce call seek summon

WEAK

call out call the name of hunt for preconize send for

Antonyms

STRONG

conceal refrain

WEAK

answer

VERB

mark sheets of document

Synonyms

STRONG

check count foliate number paginate

Antonyms

STRONG

estimate guess

WEAK

answer

Example Sentences

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Minutes later, Totorica was paging for an emergency team over the loudspeakers.

From Salon • Nov. 1, 2024

I kept swiping, paging through one video after another like a person possessed.

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2023

And as I brought the rings to my lips to kiss them, I was startled by a blaring airport announcement: “Paging Michael Newman, paging Michael Newman.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2022

Friedman obviously had fun paging through old ads like that one, and the sometimes astonishingly retrograde magazine layouts overseen by serial dieters like Helen Gurley Brown, the longtime editor of Cosmopolitan.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2021

He began paging through the rest of his journal, inserting the ribbons.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart