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noun

ˈswät How to pronounce swot (audio)
Definition of swotnext
British
as in nerd
a person slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits every time he begged off a night at the pub—saying he had to study—his mates teased him for being a swot

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verb

British
as in to analyze

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Recent Examples of swot
Noun
Nobody talked about the furtive ambition of the swots. — Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
Yamada Jun, the IT expert, became the CEO and travelled to Germany to swot up on renewables. — The Economist, 13 June 2020 Greenblatt might want to have a chinwag with some of his colleagues in the history department and swot up the biography of someone like Wisconsin’s Robert La Follette, a progressive populist politician perhaps more to his liking. — Alex Beam, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for swot
  1. nerd
  2. analyze
  3. geek
  4. deduce
  5. study
  6. find out
  7. read
  8. learn
Noun
  • On Monday morning, the world's econ nerds tuned in to an announcement from Sweden to learn who won this year's Nobel Prize in economics.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The problem is when the self-importance of festival political activism crosses wires with these horror nerds.
    — Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of nerd
Verb
  • Local processing could help rovers analyze terrain, interpret sensor readings, and support decisions without sending every piece of data back to Earth.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Databricks helps organizations collect, process, and analyze large amounts of data and has been used by companies, such as Al-Futtaim Group, to help optimize its supply chain and develop a customer loyalty program.
    — Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of analyze
Noun
  • In recent weeks, a number of states have been winning multibillion-dollar settlements from the computer geeks.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Sure, something interesting might eventually happen, but no one outside of a few Canadian space geeks was paying much attention.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of geek
Verb
  • This is an odd, stilted entry that’s hard to deduce and is making its first appearance in a Times puzzle.
    — Caitlin Lovinger, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Now that sleuths have deduced exactly where, the city is marking the spot.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of deduce
Verb
  • Animators studied ostriches before feeding their digital movement curves into a six-axis mechanical rig carrying the performers.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The team also studied 151 white dwarfs located within about 65 light-years (20 parsecs) from Earth.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of study
Verb
  • When people can’t easily find out how much water and power a site will use, or who actually benefits, politicians fill the gap with rhetoric.
    — Adhum Carter Wolde-Lule, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Nivola and Britton are tight-lipped, preferring to let viewers find out for themselves.
    — Maira Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of find out
Verb
  • The broader reality is technology has changed the way people read.
    — Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Both he and Jones are both represented by CAA — and once Jones read it, the actor wanted in.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of read
Verb
  • Dazzle, the new venture, is a personal AI assistant that learns from the photos on a user’s phone, said Mayer.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Rilke writes about solitude, love, patience and learning to live with uncertainty.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of learn

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