swotted

past tense of swot, British

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Verb
  • Davie detectives then found out that the DEA was also looking into Cooper’s group, and the two agencies began a joint investigation.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Cracker Barrel quickly found out that the big picture is hard to see through cataracts.
    Neal Rubin, Freep.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The two met when Bethany was a teenager on a school trip who got stranded in Warsaw for a month when ash from an Icelandic eruption grounded planes across Europe.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Exploring the Connection Between Diet and Hair Growth For the new review, researchers analyzed 17 studies from around the world, including a total 61,332 people between the ages of 7 and 77.
    Brian Mastroianni, Health, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In the hacking campaigns Proofpoint analyzed, cybercriminals attempted to trick users into downloading and installing Stealerium as an attachment or a web link, luring victims with typical bait like a fake payment or invoice.
    Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 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
  • While the concept of autonomous soaring has been studied before, applying it to long-distance drone flights could transform aviation.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In the research for his doctoral dissertation, Nelson studied Ford Motor Company’s electronics division (now Visteon) and its effort to completely overhaul the product design and delivery processes.
    Nelson P. Repenning, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Swotted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/swotted. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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