swotted

Definition of swottednext
past tense of swot, British

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for swotted
Verb
  • The victim’s body, and the murder, remained hidden for nearly eight years until the woman’s new boyfriend found out about the killing and turned her over to police, according to testimony in court.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Authorities found out his driver's license had expired in May 2019, according to the state's attorney's office.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Kochanowicz also escaped a first-and-third, two-out jam in the first by striking out Randy Arozarena looking at an 88-mph slider and a two-on, two-out jam in the third by getting Arozarena to ground out.
    CBS News, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The club did not score in the fourth despite having three singles, and in the fifth, the club squandered Roman Anthony’s two-out triple after Trevor Story grounded out to end the inning.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The samples were analyzed at a World Anti-Doping Agency accredited lab in Rome and will be stored at a facility for up to 10 years, per The Athletic.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The samples were analyzed and Federline was allegedly identified as one of the likely contributors, the warrant affidavit said.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Law enforcement arrived soon after and deduced the shot must have come from outside, potentially from an area 30 yards away where a firearm-sniffing dog alerted the following day.
    Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The spikes in volume didn’t indicate whether the trades were buy or sell orders, but based on how prices moved as they were placed other traders quickly deduced that someone was selling oil futures, a bet on the value of the commodity falling, and buying stock futures, a bet on a market rebound.
    John Cassidy, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • To test human reactions to sycophantic AI, researchers studied the reactions of just overn2,400 human participants interacting with AI.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Nagarjuna had studied the story of the saint-composer from school textbooks – the king who imprisoned him, the sealed chamber with an opening only at the top through which he was fed.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
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“Swotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swotted. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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