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
“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
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
I phoned the switchboard and left a message for him to expect me at one the next day.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
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
