How To Use Swot In A Sentence
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What if I saw one of my old teachers and they found out their swotty student has amounted to naught?
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Serves me right for reading the Economist when I should have been swotting for my year 2 exams.
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The unloved school swots of the 20th century have blossomed into the alpha group of the 21st.
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Then he swotted and got his limited electrician's licence.
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One, who chose a college in northwest London to swot up on his GCSE science over Easter, found himself in a class of 30.
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Even at his preparatory school, where he was known as a swot of the first water, he had displayed an unhealthy infatuation for that tongue; he loved its cold, lapidary construction; and while other boys played football or cricket, this withered little fellow used to lark about with a note-book, all by himself, torturing sensible
South Wind
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Graham is still swotting up on bicycles and has got to the stage where he's constantly muttering technical-sounding buzzwords.
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I'm swotting at maths for the final examination.
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That is to say that I am at the school swot end of the driving spectrum.
Times, Sunday Times
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Plus, 'awful swotter' is much better than the new 'bookworm'.
Times, Sunday Times
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She likes Charles Dickens' novels - Nicholas Nickleby is her favourite - and after choosing her specialist subject she then had a fortnight to swot up on the writer.
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The unloved school swots of the 20th century have blossomed into the alpha group of the 21st.
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I have to swot up on phrasal verbs for a test tomorrow.
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Well, you better swot up quickly or you could be fined, become uninsurable or be delisted from a stock exchange.
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And for some reason, academic success meant nothing in my school - there was no praise for doing well - only jeers from other pupils, or teachers who called me a swot in front of the rest of the class.
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As a child swot, though, I felt a responsibility to my family to enter a "respectable" profession I dutifully studied law but found journalism's raffish camaraderie more accommodating.
Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg
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I hope it restores a little bit of national pride. It was also a huge surprise. I didn't have time to swot up so I just breezed in and did the best I could.
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Sue listed his academic achievements and Boris admitted he was a colossal swot - he strongly recommended boning up.
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This is your opportunity to get involved and find your best young speller so the sooner you register, the sooner your children can start swotting!
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That history master happened also to be a County cricketer and a notable rugger player, so his remarks were discounted by the swots in the back row as the sort of thing he would say, wouldn't he?
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I was stoned by a gang of cretins and suckers-up to cretins for being a "swot".
Undergraduates are more than their parents bank balance
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Ohai, speekin ob rakoons…mai DH gawt up udder mawnin, heers bangee typ noyz, fot ai wuz gittin eye swotter inna kichin.
I makes shedding an art form - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The election of Britain's first Green Party MP would make a tangible difference: on 6 May, every Labour MP would begin nervously to swot up on climate change.
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No need to swot up on policy documents.
The Sun
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You will know the answer to this so give someone else a chance you swot!
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Mah meezer, Simon, runs an hides wehn he sees a flie-swotter.
So… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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When he read the book on the recommendation of his daughter Eleanor, he was especially drawn to Harry's swotty classmate Hermione, the character Rowling has said is most closely based on herself.
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The 19-year-old added: ‘I watch England whenever they play but will have to definitely swot up on my Arsenal knowledge.’
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The new site offers visitors not just information on the school, but a chance to swot up on subjects as well.
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Is it a bluff or has he swotted up a bit of Slovak the day before, and is now trying to provoke a challenge?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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It's time to start swotting up for the exam.
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Maybe it's the juxtaposition of gobby punk attitude alongside such a slavishly swotty excavation of rock'n'roll mythology that attracted attention.
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I open the fridge for some swotty blueberries and there, twinkling at me, is the perfect, central-casting trifle.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's worth swotting up on all the different types of computer before you buy one.
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Brown's memory of himself at this time is not as a swot but as an all-rounder, ‘very keen on sports’.
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At the time, I would rather have had a detention; didn't really enjoy being the school swot.
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Most players will only get one 21 game a year, possibly none if swotting for examinations.
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And while everybody else is rushing about like bees round an upturned hive you could be catching up with your swotting for your exams.
DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
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Once you have located the source of potential trouble, your next step is to go, not to the doctor, but to the bookshop to swot up your symptoms in a health manual.
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Along with medicine, it was the favoured option for a swotty daughter.
Times, Sunday Times
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This means I would no longer be returning from Paris around 1 am on Friday 21 May with at least three more days to swot up.
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Even so, Nishikori can swot up on the Scot's game with his coach Brad Gilbert, the father of a former room-mate and more significantly, Murray's coach for 16 months between 2006 and 2007.
Andy Murray v Kei Nishikori – live! | Steve Busfield
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To affirm that Robespierre was a pedantic "swotter" is not to reveal the causes of his absolute power over the Convention, at a time when he had spent several months in decimating it with perfect impunity.
The Psychology of Revolution
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Clearly too Leighton has being swotting up on the dynamic events of the past decade in Scotland's art world.
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All over the country, school and university students have their heads down to swot for summer exams, and anxiety levels shoot up.
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British sports writing - in contrast to the American variety - often has the feel of the class swot trying to impress the lads with his newly discovered fascination for footie.
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Hobbs, who left school at 16 without a qualification to his name, defied his detractors by swotting up on what makes a successful health club.
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I was a little swot, and enjoyed learning.
Times, Sunday Times
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Select one topical current affairs issue each week and swot up on it from newspapers and magazines.
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I was a little swot, and enjoyed learning.
Times, Sunday Times
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' Swot 'is a pejorative term for someone who studies a lot.
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With the contest now under way, this DVD is an opportunity to swot up on one of cricket's and sport's most ancient rivalries.
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It is the school swot versus the school bully.
Times, Sunday Times
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SWOT means Strengths, Weakness , Opportunities, and Threats.
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In the cold calculus of survival, Joey stood there working out the SWOT analysis in his head, assigning numerical values to various factors, working out a set of equations modelling crowd dynamics, reach of sword-of-fire chargrill flame blasts, all sorts of data relevant to an accurate assessment of whether he should throw himself into battle or run like fuck.
Archive 2009-08-01
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It is the school swot versus the school bully.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hundreds of Bolton residents are learning new tricks and swotting up on old skills through free learning sessions.
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I don't see him becoming another Wesley Crusher, because first he seems quite a bit older (maybe 10 years?) and second he is much more a geek and less the skinny swot that Wesley was.
How Did You Like the Series Premiere of Stargate Universe?
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Only a total boss-eyed swot would go to the trouble of fabricating anything.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the same way a hard-working employee can annoy his more laid-back colleagues by showing them up, so a swot tends to annoy his less bright, less studious classmates.
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Children who wish to take part will have the whole summer to swot up on their spelling using these informative and educational packs and from September the national spelling event begins.
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To call them outsiders is like saying the school swot is from another planet.
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He insists he is an ordinary child and prefers following his beloved Aston Villa to swotting up on schoolwork.
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She attended the local comprehensive school, where by her own admission she was a bit of a swot.
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I have to swot it up because I'll teach it tomorrow.
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Already swotting up on their German with their World Cup tickets safely in the bag after Saturday's penultimate round of European zone qualifiers are the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, England, Poland and Croatia.
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It's worth swotting up on all the different types of computer before you buy one.
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Bill comes for the meal, but he then goes to his room to swot.
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He is dressed in black, wearing glasses designed to make him look like the class swot, and has a solemn expression.
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' Swot 'is a pejorative term for someone who studies a lot.
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Even in Shakespeare's day, school was for girlie swots rather than naughty boys.
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Make sure you swot up on the company before the interview.
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Thankfully, Najah had been swotting up on the news.
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Being very swotty, sport was my saviour socially.
Times, Sunday Times
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I suppose I should be swotting madly to be prepared for the big meeting with the supervisor tomorrow, however.
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Now I heard John Pienaar try and spin it that Ed Balls actually said "swot" and I hear that John Pienaar later changed that to "so weak".
"So what"
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I'm swotting at maths for the final examination.
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None of us, even the swots, knew what was going on.
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With the economy in shambles, healthcare reform imploding and tax and spend Democrats running amok is the a newswothy story or just another cheesy photo-op for a pitiful president?
Beer choice at Obama meeting touches off new debate
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I liked learning and was the school swot.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, at the same time, I wouldn't deliberately go looking for an institution that churned out swotty kids who took their A-levels at 12.
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'That's a bit unkind,' said Pat 'After all, Sadie's kind and generous and we all like to be friends with her because of those things, not because she's well-off And Pam was a nice little thing, though she's such a swotter j m not friends with her because I want to pick her brains but because there's something rather nice about her, in spite of her head always being inside a book' 'Well, stick up for Prudence if you like,' said Janet I think she's a humbug I can't stick her goody-goody ways Can you, Bobby? '
Summer Term At St Clare's
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That is to say that I am at the school swot end of the driving spectrum.
Times, Sunday Times
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The other two great liberal theoreticians, Friedrich Hayek and Karl Popper spotted something remarkable in the young swotty New Yorker and encouraged him to argue beyond the closed world of academic text books.
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It's time to start swotting up for the exam.
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Graduate Michael Angliss spent three years swotting for his degree - only to be told to dumb down when it came to getting a job.
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Over my cup of tea, I decided to swot up a bit on the royal wedding.
Kim Carillo: From New York With Love
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Besides, these days a cool pair of glasses is seen as a fashion plus, and I'm less likely to be called ‘four eyes’ today than when I was the speccy swot at school.
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And everyone looks at the floor, until the swot comes in with an answer that he hopes will impress the teachers.
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I liked learning and was the school swot.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have a first class honours degree in biochemistry and I won the prize for being the top swot.
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It’s all a bit hysterical, as everyone is feeling the same sort of relief and trepidation, and most are muddle-headed as well from end-of-term all-night swotting.
Dreaming of the Bones
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Just last week the wonderfully named teenager Seb Clover sailed solo across the Atlantic at a time when most of his peers are swotting for exams.
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The interview came to an end with the shrewd question of the examining professor: ‘Are you acquainted with the transcripts of the Party Congresses?’ and my humble reply: ‘I swotted up on them’.
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There was also the occupation of killing flies with a fly-swotter, playing card games and dominoes, grousing, yarning, sleeping and eating.
In Mesopotamia
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Case analysis of South bedding in this article, first on South bedding SWOT analysis, understand the company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
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If the idea of quitting office life sounds appealing, make sure you swot up first, advises Dave Houlden
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It's worth swotting up on all the different types of computer before you buy one.
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Michelle Leiper is swotting up on exotic species of aquatic life.
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I know it's always been there, but the aggressive and occasionally horrifying disdain I've seen meted out to my nieces and nephews is in another league compared to the mild joshing I received for being a "swot", and which was always countered by the protection and drive to succeed that the vast majority of my teachers displayed.
Word Magazine - Comments
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Unless you are naturally superbright, cleverness is closely related to swotting.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have to swot up my physics now.
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Let us pause for a moment to give thanks for Defamer; now that Gawker is run by the kind of characterless swots your parents always wanted you to turn out like, there is a rapidly-shrinking pool of sources for good blog post swipitation.
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' Swot 'is a pejorative term for someone who studies a lot.
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Cook is the school swot whose achievements in politics have not surprised anyone who sat with him in a classroom or opposite him in any debating chamber.
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That speech confirms what many people feel and fear about politicians: that they were the most despised classmates at school - the swot, the precocious prat, the political trainspotter.
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Unlike exams, you can't swot up for psychometric tests, but if you think you're likely to come across them in your hunt for a job try to familiarise yourself with the process.
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It's worth swotting up on all the different types of computer before you buy one.
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He got on a flight, flew to Dunedin, swotted all night, sat his paper the next morning and flew to Rotorua to join the band for a concert that night.
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But he is still a bright spark when it comes to maths and English because he swots up with the help of a special tutor who teaches him on the ward.
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It is stressed for value chain analysis, SWOT analysis, cost driver analysis in the Strategic Coststatement.
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To try and sum up a potential candidate in 10 minutes is a waste of time for you and even more of a waste of time for the candidate who has to swot up on the company, preen themselves, find your office and then wait for you to decide to show.
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Tony was the sporty one and Henry was the swotty one, but despite the differences they remained friends throughout the years.
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Tony was the sporty one and Henry was the swotty one, but despite the differences they remained friends throughout the years.
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They are the culinary equivalent of girlie swots.
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Afterward we analysis and summary the sales environment with SWOT method.
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Learning to drive is getting more difficult, especially today with so much paperwork and swotting to do for separate practical and theory tests.
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Notes: SWOT means Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat.
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The swots call it "hypnagogic", the more commercial-minded are calling it "sugary mutant pop".
Outer Limits Recordings (No 904)
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It used to be perceived as a really swotty thing to enjoy reading but authors such as her have made books more accessible and made reading enjoyable.
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I have to swot up on phrasal verbs for a test tomorrow.
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I'm swotting at Latin.
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I spent all last night swotting up German verbs.