paged

verb

past tense of page
as in rang

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paged
  1. rang
  2. requested
  3. invoked
  4. buzzed
  5. ordered
  6. whistled
  7. beckoned
  8. demanded
Verb
  • Minutes after the fight ended, a lone 911 caller rang authorities to report the brawl.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • According to the arrest report, detectives then found surveillance video showing the outside of the victim’s home moments before the two kidnappers rang the doorbell.
    — KFOX Staff, Baltimore Sun, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of rang
Verb
  • Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance representative Sonia Alleyne reported a pledge of 1,100 affordable mortgages in Boston and requested another 1,500 outside Boston over five years.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 7 Nov. 2026
  • The statement noted that the hospital neither requested nor authorized federal agents to restrict the ambulance entrance.
    — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026
Definition of requested
Verb
  • And on what will be among his final stops on the campaign trail, the Iowa Democrat invoked a Republican former president in his closing pitch.
    — Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The European Union invoked unusually strong language targeting the deal, declaring it in violation of maritime law.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of invoked
Verb
  • Rothe will next star in Universal Pictures and Blumhouse’s buzzed about TIFF acquisition River, opposite Jane Levy, which will open in theaters on January 15, 2027.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The annual classical Christian schools conference in June in Atlanta buzzed with talk of the historic shift in school funding, which bolsters a conservative Christian push to remake the education landscape.
    — Tiffany Stanley, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of buzzed
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  • Also Sunday, prosecutors ordered a 48-hour detention of Marko Kricak, Vucic's chief of criminal police.
    — MARKO DROBNJAKOVIC, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026
  • More than 100 miles southeast of Sedona, officials in Gila County ordered the total evacuation of Gisela, a small community of several hundred residents along Tonto Creek.
    — Philip Marcelo, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of ordered
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  • That prospect flared up for Seoane as the home fans whistled and booed at the final whistle, and became reality on Monday when the club’s board acted.
    — Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
Definition of whistled
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  • For someone whose energetic stomp through Lagos helped introduce her to much of the internet, nerves still arrived when the Chanel runway beckoned.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Was hearing Roland Hayes and, in time, other inspiring artists sing Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann songs like being beckoned by a musical brook to trust her instincts and follow its unlikely path?
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of beckoned
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  • The taunting two-and-a-half-page ransom note was addressed to JonBenét's father, John Ramsey, and demanded $118,000 for the safe return of his daughter.
    — Megan Fahrney, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Protesters called for a moratorium on new projects and demanded a national strategy governing the industry’s growth.
    — Mike Corder, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
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