paging
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of paging
Example Sentences
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Minutes later, Totorica was paging for an emergency team over the loudspeakers.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2024
“As far as I know, they chose to ignore all of it,” she said Wednesday after paging through the report.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2023
I kept swiping, paging through one video after another like a person possessed.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2023
Another time, Mr. Baron was in the Tampa airport when the intercom summoned him to a white paging telephone.
From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2023
They then spent the next two hours slowly paging through the Wallace yearbooks again, writing down the name of anyone that remotely resembled James Parker.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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