switchboard
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The first power outage, prosecutors say, was caused by a loose wire in a switchboard.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
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 went to Brown, so I still knew the switchboard number by heart,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2024
Kirschenbaum had no spouse, siblings or children, and lived a no-frills lifestyle, working as a switchboard operator for the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian aid organization, until her retirement in 2004.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
I remembered those words when I came home from France and needed to find a job—that the switchboard operators in Washington were the best in the country.
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
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
