Example Sentences

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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

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

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