swotted

past tense of swot, British

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for swotted
Verb
  • The director found out that his 1 million feet of dailies were in storage in Mexico’s National Autonomous University archive.
    Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Once found out, the man stormed into Anderson's room and shot him dead.
    Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The first two seasons of The Bear were simultaneously very funny and also earned their panic-attack-inducing tension by grounding the characters and story in the dysfunctions of a middle-class family in Chicago.
    Andrew Bernard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • There were even temporary flight restrictions grounding the drones of Free Press photographers, who sought ariel photos to reveal the scale of the damage.
    John Wisely, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The city analyzed truck traffic generators in southwest Detroit, identified travel patterns and paid particular attention to the Livernois Junction Intermodal terminal, which accounts for more than 1,200 truck trips per day.
    Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The items are being analyzed by DNA technology that was not available in 2021.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As Australians, much like everyone else, have 1-4% Neanderthal DNA in their genes, researchers logically deduced that hominins couldn’t have arrived any time before that, which would call into question a fundamental belief concerning human migration.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Most of what experts know has been deduced from studying ceramics, camelid remains, and other religious sites, such as Akapana, that dot the Andean highlands.
    Gina Park, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Black nuclear families, like the one Cardi B (who is Afro-Latina) was part of for the past seven years, are actually on the rise, according to Christina Cross, a professor, researcher, and sociologist at Harvard University who has studied this subject extensively.
    Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
  • These strategies – called selection sort and shaker sort – are typically studied in computer science.
    Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Swotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swotted. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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