paging

verb

Definition of pagingnext
present participle of page
as in ringing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paging
  1. ringing
  2. invoking
  3. buzzing
  4. requesting
  5. demanding
Verb
  • Phones are ringing off the hook at top-dollar security firms to keep the captains of industry safe.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Phones are ringing off the hook at top-dollar security firms to keep the captains of industry safe.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of ringing
Verb
  • Democrats on Thursday night proposed paying for the one-year extension of the ACA subsidies by offsetting it with automatic spending cuts, invoking what is known as the budget sequester, according to the people with knowledge of the proposal.
    DAN DIAMOND AND RACHEL ROUBEIN THE WASHINGTON POST, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Martial law Yoon, who clinched power in a neck-and-neck presidential race in 2022, had an approval rate of just 19% before unexpectedly invoking martial law earlier this week for the first time since the military coup of 1979.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of invoking
Verb
  • Compiled annually by a group led by Franklin Leonard, a recipient of a Gotham tribute award this year, Variety waits with childlike anticipation each year to see which scripts film executives have really been buzzing over — but haven’t had the budget or the chutzpah to put into production just yet.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Andrews’ three-pointer banked into the basket with four-tenths of a second left, leaving a crowd that had been buzzing moments earlier in stunned disbelief.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of buzzing
Verb
  • When requesting feedback, good collaborators err on the side of specificity.
    Shani Harmon, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Over the first two days of deliberations, jurors sent several notes to the court requesting to review video evidence and rehear parts of the jury instructions and testimony during the trial.
    Gloria Pazmino, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of requesting
Verb
  • Outside, protesters surrounded the courtroom, many demanding a deal to release the Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and an end to the war.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024
  • With Americans still exhibiting high rates of obesity, added sugars under the microscope, and consumers demanding better-for-you foods and beverages, healthier LNCS are poised for strong growth.
    Hank Cardello, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of demanding
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