switchboard
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Educated by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy, she worked filing letters and on a switchboard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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
The switchboard at the Lime Grove studios was jammed with viewers ringing in to find out more, and it gave the BBC the nudge to set up the Natural History Unit in Bristol in 1957.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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
The only plan I can come up with is to do everything at once and hope that the teenagers at the Motel 6 switchboard can be trusted to serve as my answering machine.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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 two days, more than 400 people jammed the hospital switchboards, calling about Charles.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2017
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
