swotted

past tense of swot, British

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for swotted
Verb
  • Balogun found out about the decision in a team meeting Sunday, a source familiar with the situation said.
    Monica Alba, NBC news, 5 July 2026
  • Preston found out on her own that having the APOE4 gene is serious.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • The two daredevils who scaled the spire of the Empire State Building while the world watched have been grounded by the New York Police Department and are now the targets of a criminal investigation.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 3 July 2026
  • The Navy had to wait for specialized technicians to arrive or ship massive parts across the globe to repair depots in the US, keeping combat jets grounded.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • Underground, buried fiber-optic cables can sense movement, capturing data that are also then analyzed by AI.
    Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Shell has consistently been a close second to Chevron for high prices and fat margins, followed by the other large oil company brands, according to data collected and analyzed by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA).
    Jerry McNerney, Mercury News, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • In other words, there’s not much to be deduced here, unlike the extensive notes which accompanied the release of AirPods Pro 3 last fall.
    David Phelan, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • Knowing the entire sequence — the order of all 3 billion or so of our DNA’s chemical building blocks, nearly fully deduced by the international Human Genome Project between 1990 and 2003 — hasn’t helped much.
    Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Between 2019 and 2024, home values grew faster than incomes for young adults in 142 of 160 metropolitan areas Pew studied.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • Beyond that, look for someone who has done the work, not just studied it.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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“Swotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swotted. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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