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

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

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

“I went to Brown, so I still knew the switchboard number by heart,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2024

The parents' habit was to call us on Friday or Saturday nights around ten right before the switchboard closed.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez