swotted

past tense of swot, British

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Although Regretting You and New Year's Rev were filmed back-to-back, both stars found out about the gigs at different times.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Lorch found out and called him.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Much has been said about Bella's plain-Jane persona, but Stewart's earnest performance vivifies the character with a plucky yet lovesick duality that also grounds the film's lofty fantasy sequences.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Lane, who is relentlessly serious and ambitious, gets complimented for being more grounded and intellectual than Gala.
    Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Several of the production facilities that CNN analyzed have swiftly replaced villages and farmland, growing by tens of thousands of square feet in the past five years.
    Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025
  • In The New Republic, Alex Shephard analyzed the nitty-gritty successes.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
Verb
  • And many Dodger fans put two and two together and deduced that Scherzer’s impending free agency was a factor in that decision.
    Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 26 Oct. 2025
  • By seeing Earth spinning and orbiting, satellites and space telescopes have confirmed what astronomers have long deduced.
    Nilakshi Veerabathina, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Early on, the larvae are very tiny and at the mercy of sea currents, explains Pruett, who has studied them in the lab.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The researchers studied 1,591 individuals as part of the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development, a cohort that studied children born in 1997 and 1998 through age 23.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 31 Oct. 2025
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“Swotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swotted. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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