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
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
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
Or perhaps you’ll choose to investigate a wall-long switchboard, listening to callers’ problems and trying to connect them with a solution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2024
On the table in front of the switchboard lay a single sheet of typewritten paper.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
His team is now looking at how these little switchboards can be controlled by the brain.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 27, 2023
Here, a semi-circular control desk and two long banks of switchboards have been painstakingly preserved.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2022
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
