: one that pages
especially
: a small radio receiver that beeps, vibrates, or flashes to alert the user to an incoming message which is usually displayed on a small screen
: one having or covering a specified number or kind of pages
—used in combination
her essay was a 15-pager
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Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Israeli achievements in technical intelligence, cyberattacks, pager detonations, precision killings, mass civilian carnage, and more, may point the way to methods that will be employed by all and sundry.
—Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
In any event, the strikes appear to have been highly precise and effective, much as the pager attack on Hezbollah last year was.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
In terms of its tradecraft, Operation Spider’s Web resembled the Israeli Mossad’s pager attack on Hezbollah last year, in which Israeli intelligence replaced Hezbollah fighters’ regular pagers with devices containing explosives.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2025
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Noun
In September 2024, the same month as the pager attack and assassination of Hezbollah’s leader, Israel launched the most extensive campaign of airstrikes in the air force’s history hitherto, destroying much of Hezbollah’s strategic surface-to-surface missile stockpiles.
—Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Israeli achievements in technical intelligence, cyberattacks, pager detonations, precision killings, mass civilian carnage, and more, may point the way to methods that will be employed by all and sundry.
—Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 23 June 2025
In any event, the strikes appear to have been highly precise and effective, much as the pager attack on Hezbollah last year was.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
In terms of its tradecraft, Operation Spider’s Web resembled the Israeli Mossad’s pager attack on Hezbollah last year, in which Israeli intelligence replaced Hezbollah fighters’ regular pagers with devices containing explosives.
—Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2025
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“Pager.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pager. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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