switchboard

Example Sentences

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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

Heating in her home is not turned on during the daytime, she said, showing AFP the system's switchboard mounted above her stove displaying "off".

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

“Dewey put it on the turntable and the switchboard lit up,” Martindale said in a 2010 interview with The Times.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 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

For the next several days, Deborah called Hopkins again and again, telling the switchboard operators, “I’m calling for my cancer results.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot