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
She rang the switchboard of the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust claiming to be Madeleine and asked to be put through to Glenfield Hospital, where Mr and Mrs McCann worked.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
“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
“Switch places with me; let me sit at your switchboard tonight.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Police forces across the UK have warned that a new feature on some Android phones is plaguing switchboards with inadvertent "silent" 999 calls.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2023
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
We were letting the soldiers man the switchboards because I hadn’t been able to face the idea of going back into that room.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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