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
A 20-minute call to the switchboard led to a report back from the NHS trust's communications manager to Operation Grange, the British investigation into the disappearance.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
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
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
Next to me Helen has noticed that something has happened but then her switchboard lights up and she can’t focus on me.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
In those days, phone calls were manually patched through by an operator at a switchboard, with long-distance calls often relayed through multiple switchboards.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
