switchboard
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“We no longer have switchboard operators or elevator operators,” Tinen, who works in sales, added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
Although the number was bogus, Paul encountered the court's genuine automated switchboard message - which the criminals had duplicated to make the scam more convincing.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2025
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
She would talk herself past the terse woman on the switchboard, and the pompous young fellow in the outer office, and she would reassure her husband that there was no need to feel guilt.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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
Students try on headsets and tentatively push buttons on various radio switchboards.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2021
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
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
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