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Swag II
Swag II (SWAG II) is Justin Bieber's eighth studio album, surprise-released September 5, 2025 on Def Jam, a 23-track sequel to SWAG with Dijon, Mk.gee, Carter Lang, guests Tems, Bakar, Lil B, Hurricane Chris, and mixed-to-negative reviews.
Swag Live from Coachella (Weekend I)
Swag Live from Coachella (Weekend I) is Justin Bieber's 2026 live album on Def Jam and ILH, recording his April 11, 2026 Coachella headlining set of 22 tracks with The Kid LAROI, Tems, Wizkid, Dijon, and Mk.gee.
Swagger
Swagger is an Apple TV+ sports drama created by Reggie Rock Bythewood, inspired by Kevin Durant's youth basketball, starring Isaiah Hill and O'Shea Jackson Jr., running 2021-2023 over two seasons before cancellation.
Swagger (software)
Swagger is a language-agnostic specification for describing HTTP APIs, now the OpenAPI Specification under the Linux Foundation, plus SmartBear's open-source tools including Swagger UI and Swagger Codegen.
Swagger stick
Swagger stick: short rattan or wood cane carried by uniformed officers as a symbol of authority, also called swagger cane; derived from the Roman centurion's vine staff, standard British officer kit from the 1850s, now mostly ceremonial.
Swagger UI
Swagger UI is an open-source tool that renders an interactive, visual API reference from a Swagger or OpenAPI definition, with live test requests from the browser.
Swaging
Swaging is a chipless metal forming process that reduces or reshapes rods, tubes, and wires with rapid die blows, used in automotive, aerospace, and medical manufacturing.
Swahili
Swahili (Kiswahili) is a Bantu language of East Africa, official in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and DRC, with over 200 million speakers, Arabic-derived name, Kiunguja-based standard, and African Union working-language status since 2022.
Swahili Ajami manuscripts
Swahili Ajami manuscripts are handwritten works in Swahili written in an Arabic-derived script rather than the Latin alphabet, a centuries-old tradition of religious poetry and epics along the Swahili coast.
Swahili Bible translation
The Swahili Bible translation renders the Christian Bible into Kiswahili, begun in 1844 by Johann Ludwig Krapf, with the first complete New Testament published in 1879.
Swahili carved doors
Swahili carved doors are monumental carved wooden doorways marking the entrances of stone houses along the East African Swahili coast, from Mogadishu to northern Mozambique, notably in Lamu and Zanzibar.
Swahili city-states
Swahili city-states: Muslim mercantile polities on the East African coast (Mogadishu, Mombasa, Kilwa, Zanzibar, Sofala) flourishing c. 8th–16th centuries in Indian Ocean monsoon trade, later subdued by Portuguese then Omani rule.
Swahili coast gold and ivory trade expansion
The Swahili coast gold and ivory trade expansion was the growth of Indian Ocean commerce from roughly 1000 to 1500 CE, moving Zimbabwean gold through Sofala to Kilwa.
Swahili coast trade
Swahili coast trade was the long-distance commerce linking East African port towns from Somalia to Mozambique with the interior and with Arabia, Persia, and India.
Swahili dialects
The Swahili dialects are the regional and social varieties of Swahili, spoken by some 100 million people, with coastal dialects such as Kiunguja and Kimvita and inland Congo varieties.
Swahili drama
Swahili drama, known in Kiswahili as tamthiliya, is the genre of Swahili-language plays, written for stage performance or reading, with written plays appearing in Tanzania and Kenya from the 1950s.
Swahili Islamic epics
Swahili Islamic epics, known as tenzi or utenzi, are long narrative poems on Islamic subjects composed on the East African coast from the seventeenth century.
Swahili novel
The Swahili novel (riwaya) is extended fictional prose in the Swahili language, a form adopted from Western literature that flourished after the 1950s, especially in Tanzania and Kenya.
Swahili people
Swahili people (Waswahili): coastal East Africans from Somalia to Mozambique defined by the Bantu language Kiswahili, Islam, and coastal town life; indigenous African origins with African and Asian admixture from about AD 1000.
Swahili poetry slam
A Swahili poetry slam is a competitive spoken-word event held in East Africa, where poets perform in Swahili, English, or Sheng before judges and audiences who score them in real time.
Swahili romance novel
The Swahili romance novel, in Kiswahili riwaya za mahaba, is a love story written in Kiswahili and a basic genre of East African popular fiction.
Swahili work songs
Swahili work songs are songs sung to accompany labor in the Swahili-speaking regions of the East African coast, above all maritime work such as sailing, fishing, and paddling.
Swain–Lupton equation
The Swain–Lupton equation separates a substituent's electronic effect into field and resonance components in physical organic chemistry; Swain and Lupton of MIT proposed it in 1968.
Swains Island
Swains Island (Olohega, also Quiros, Gente Hermosa, Olosega, Jennings Island) is an atoll at 11°3′S 170°55′W, part of American Samoa since 1925. Privately held by the Jennings family from 1856; Tokelau claim extinguished by the 1980 Treaty of Tokehega.
Swainson's hawk
Swainson's hawk (Buteo swainsoni), a North American buteo breeding in western grasslands, migrating about 20,000 km to Argentine pampas; insect-eating outside breeding, ~900,000 birds, IUCN Least Concern.
Swakopmund
Swakopmund is a coastal resort town in western Namibia, founded in 1892 as a German colonial seaport, now the capital of the Erongo Region with about 76,000 residents.
Swale (landform)
Swale (landform): a shallow open depression lacking a defined channel; also called slack. Covers coastal dune swales between beach ridges, prairie swales, and designed vegetated stormwater channels, from Old Norse svalr.
Swalla
Swalla: 2017 Jason Derulo single featuring Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign, released by Warner Bros. on Feb 24, 2017; interpolates Ol' Dirty Bastard's Shimmy Shimmy Ya, peaked at UK #6, later on the 2024 album Nu King.
Swallow
Swallows (family Hirundinidae, including Barn Swallow, Tree Swallow, House Martin) are small passerine birds that catch insects in flight worldwide. Distinguished from unrelated swifts by color and wing shape; nest in mud cups, cavities, or burrows.
Swallow (AI model)
Swallow is a family of open-weight large language models adapted for Japanese, built by Institute of Science Tokyo with AIST through continual pre-training of Llama and Gemma base models.