Michelle Lujan Grisham

I think, in general, we've created an environment where we've done away with the sort of day-to-day training that's necessary, including crisis intervention, behavioral health training - the kinds of things that we know that both protect officers and the community - and moved away to a highly military, advanced SWAT team mentality.

American Politician

Michelle Obama

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.

American First Lady

Karen Armstrong

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

English Writer

Bebe Buell

It's, 'Honey, where's the peacock outfit? What about my leather pants?' You have to swat them clean with a brush. And when the makeup artist passed out, I had to finish. That's why Todd would have two different kinds of eye makeup on.

American Model

Michael Dickinson

It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the fly is going to jump when it first sees your swatter.

American Scientist

Dan Jenkins

You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.

American Author

Gary Goetzman

No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

American Producer

Khris Middleton

I think mid-range shooters are hard to get to a lot of times. Guys are going at you all the way to the paint or looking to swat it at the 3-point line.

American Athlete

Richard Stallman

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.

Scientist

Dean Potter

I don't have thoughts of an afterlife. I think dying is like when you swat a fly - it's over.

Used when describing a quick, usually small, hitting movement by a person.

Physical action

Often used when trying to hit a flying insect like a mosquito or fly.

Common with insects

Can be used metaphorically to describe rejecting something annoying or troublesome.

Metaphorical use

As a noun, 'swat' emphasizes the power behind the hit more than the motion.

Emphasizes force

Use it in casual conversation about dealing with pests or small annoyances.

Informal contexts

Can describe a physical hit or a figurative one, such as a sharp retort in an argument.

Literal and figurative

Refers to a highly-trained police unit, not used in everyday situations.

Police context

Associated with critical, often dangerous, law enforcement situations.

Specific scenarios

SWAT is not commonly used outside discussions related to law enforcement or action-oriented media.

Not a common term

 exactly how neurons work together in the brain. This is also valuable for engineers, who study the insect brain to help design control systems for everything from self-flying airplanes to tiny search-and-rescue roach bots. So, size and complexity are not always the most impressive things. The next time you try to swat a fly,

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 will eat lots of grass if they're feeling a little bit unwell they've got a hairball it helps helps bring that back up again and you acting very playful what's biting you I think something must be some insect of source must be nibbling on this line you can see that Terrell is swatting and it's

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 kicked out now living a life of solitary swatting that tail keeping away all the biting flies I even have a quarry branch in the car today the insects have been particularly bad be nice if he gave that my ruler a shake just to see if they aren't one or two more fruits still

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 that borough we did also see two other hyena closer towards the road they actually look like males to me they could have also just been very young females but not too close to the den so they're do scatter themselves aren't like we said it was hard to swat them so

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 a female job in rhino with her male calf walking through the rain forest and munching on leaves at one point the calf turns away and wags its tail possibly to swat a fly WWF points out that the job in rhino is one of the world's rarest

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 As the swarm descends, alarmed humans try to swat them. They even fight back with pesticides that purposefully poison wasps, and inadvertently impact a wide-range of local wildlife. But the wasps are actually vital to this ecosystem.

Licking bees and pulping...

 without the presence of active control. Insects are not that way. They're unstable and this leads to the maneuverability that you've experienced if you ever try to swat them. What I'm saying is they're the fighter jets of the world.

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 by a yellow color change confirming that result the load swats are shaped so weirdly so that it has no language barriers and it's a totally universally comprehensive process so you might be thinking why did I do this I actually

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 suck up our oceans for the hydrogen? And swat us away like flies, the way we swat away flies when we go into the rainforest and start logging it. We can look at our own history. The late physicist Gerard O'Neill said,

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 They mainly use it to swat flies that I've noticed anyway. What would win a lion or a tiger? Short answer is, in my opinion, a tiger. They are very self focused and they do everything for themselves.

Swat

Physical action

Common with insects

Metaphorical use

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