Duplicate URL Links in Search Engines

I’ve recently noticed that my wordpress site is producing two links to pages that are then both indexed in the search engines.

For example
My permalinks are set up as /%postname%
so that when I post an article called “My Example”
it creates a post with a url as required such as
https://www.mywebsite/my-example

However, it also appears to be creating pages with the following URL structure with the same content
https://www.mywebsite/page/24

Unfortunately in many cases it seems that the search engines are ranking the latter pages higher for searches (I found this out by looking for a specific string of text that only appeared on my site)
The /page/24 url showed up first followed by the “repeat the search with the omitted results included” message. My preferred link then showed up when I clicked that option.

Hope this makes sense