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
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
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
It was the slang that everyone used, and that I used a hundred times at the switchboard.
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
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
Proteins enabled chemical reactions, speeding and controlling the pace of biochemical processes, thereby acting as the switchboards of the biological world.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
