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noun

ˈswät

Definition of swot

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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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

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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

To profile their activity in patients with SCLC, the researchers analyzed tumor samples and non-affected biopsies from a dozen patients using single-cell RNA sequencing and immunophenotyping.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 15 Oct. 2026
Last month, the Economist used Pangram to analyze parliamentary speeches, finding that 10% of the words spoken in the British Parliament were drafted with AI.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 14 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

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

About 2 weeks into shooting everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
ChatGPT is not your doctor, although most people are already using it to find out more information about their ailments, hypothetical or otherwise.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of find out

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