switchboard
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Demand for switchboard operators brought hundreds of thousands of women into corporate offices, reshaping the clerical workforce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
I’m used to being a switchboard of sorts — as a journalist, inevitably, word travels to and through me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Although the number was bogus, Paul encountered the court's genuine automated switchboard message - which the criminals had duplicated to make the scam more convincing.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025
She soon went to work for the General Post Office, which ran Britain’s telephone system, and was trained as a switchboard operator.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
Rick dialed, presently had the police switchboard operator.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
His team is now looking at how these little switchboards can be controlled by the brain.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2023
Here, a semi-circular control desk and two long banks of switchboards have been painstakingly preserved.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2022
Moreover, most people “overwhelmingly prefer to interact with a live person when dealing with customer service centers,” meaning consumers despise those god-awful automated switchboards beloved by penny-pinching businesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
In Buffalo, the Courier-Express and Evening News switchboards were flooded with callers, as was the local NBC affiliate.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2019
He had a switchboard in front of him with wires and holes, just like the switchboards in old American movies.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
