swotted

past tense of swot, British

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for swotted
Verb
  • Lorch found out and called him.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Agents issued removal orders to 42 stores found out of compliance.
    Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As Jeff and Arj stumble through each other’s lives, the timepieces highlight who’s in control, who’s grounded, and who’s scrambling.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2025
  • While his stock is rocketing around the world, the skateboarding sensation remains humble, grounded by those who know him best.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • To prove their point, the researchers analyzed 46 years’ worth of venture-capital startup investments, among other data points.
    Sydney Lake, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers at the University of Florida and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center analyzed data from more than 1,000 cancer patients with Stage 3 and 4 non-small cell lung cancer and metastatic melanoma who were treated at MD Anderson from 2019 to 2023.
    Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • By seeing Earth spinning and orbiting, satellites and space telescopes have confirmed what astronomers have long deduced.
    Nilakshi Veerabathina, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • For example, soldiers who were studied during parachute training showed dramatic stress responses within minutes of their first jump, but in later training jumps, that stress changed to thrill.
    Big Think, Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Italian scientist Alessandro Volta studied eel physiology to inspire the first battery, and recent work shows eels use doublets, two rapid spikes, to force rapid prey muscle contractions before the knockout blast.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Swotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swotted. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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