paged

verb

past tense of page
as in rang

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  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
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  • The Supreme Court requested a total of $228 million for next fiscal year, a roughly 10% increase over the year before.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
  • As part of his suit, Musk asked for $150 billion in damages that would be destined for a charitable trust and requested OpenAI’s for-profit structure be reversed.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 July 2026
Definition of requested
Verb
  • The settings range from the Garden of Eden to his own kitchen, which is invoked twice in this album as a place where unpleasant things happen.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 11 July 2026
  • Last month, the Commerce Department invoked export-control law to force Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models from the market worldwide, citing a cybersecurity risk.
    — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 9 July 2026
Definition of invoked
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  • In the 1970s and 80s, dirt bikes buzzed around its fragile landscape, creating erosion and noise.
    — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 July 2026
  • Giovanna Mantilla was in a meeting in late April when her smartwatch buzzed with the kind of notification that usually makes a small-business owner smile.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
Definition of buzzed
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  • As part of her release conditions, she has been ordered to stay away from her 13-year-old daughter while the criminal case proceeds.
    — Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 14 July 2026
  • On June 30, a judge ordered officials with the Conditional Release Program — part of the California Department of State Hospitals — to prepare a report about Allaway, court records show.
    — Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 14 July 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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  • As the service nears a close, a young Black man is beckoned forward.
    — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026
  • For most of the twentieth century, more people were leaving Italy than coming, beckoned by economic opportunities in the Americas and elsewhere.
    — Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 30 May 2026
Definition of beckoned
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  • Last week, a group of about 50 residents rallied a block away from the warehouse and demanded the company clean up the debris from the fire and then pack up and leave.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • Rather than needing years of specialist knowledge, attackers can now use large language models to perform reconnaissance, identify weaknesses, write malicious code and map computer networks in ways that previously demanded significant expertise.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 2026
Definition of demanded
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