switchboard
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“We no longer have switchboard operators or elevator operators,” Tinen, who works in sales, added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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 went to Brown, so I still knew the switchboard number by heart,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2024
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
With no industry experience, Johnson simply called the switchboards of the UK's biggest record companies.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2024
His team is now looking at how these little switchboards can be controlled by the brain.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2023
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
All through the high-ceilinged electrical room of Central, all I see are girls in black and navy and white, manning their switchboards, doing their jobs.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
