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Swing revival
The swing revival, also known as neo-swing or retro swing, revived 1930s and 1940s swing music beginning in 1989, usually fused with rock, rockabilly, punk, and ska, peaking in 1998.
Swing Shift (film)
Swing Shift is a 1984 Jonathan Demme comedy-drama starring Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, and Ed Harris about WWII aircraft-factory workers; it was famously re-edited after Hawn's reshoots and grossed $6,650,206.
Swing state
Swing state (battleground or purple state): a U.S. state where either major party can win the presidential vote. Defined by small margins, party flipping, and outsized campaign spending under the winner-take-all Electoral College; the 2024 core seven were Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina.
Swing Time (film)
Swing Time (1936) is a George Stevens RKO musical, the sixth of ten Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films, with a Kern-Fields score including Oscar winner "The Way You Look Tonight" and the blackface "Bojangles of Harlem" number.
Swing Vote (2008 film)
Swing Vote (2008 film) is a Touchstone/Disney political comedy-drama directed by Joshua Michael Stern, starring Kevin Costner as Bud Johnson, a New Mexico man whose single vote decides a tied presidential election; released August 1, 2008, 120 minutes, $16.3M US gross.
Swing When You're Winning
Swing When You're Winning is a swing cover album by Robbie Williams, his fourth studio album, released in November 2001 with duets including "Somethin' Stupid" with Nicole Kidman.
Swingers (1996 film)
Swingers is a 1996 American comedy-drama directed by Doug Liman, written by and starring Jon Favreau, about young actors in mid-1990s Los Angeles navigating the singles scene after a breakup.
Swinging (sexual practice)
Swinging (wife-swapping, the lifestyle): a form of consensual non-monogamy where committed couples have sex with others, usually at organized events, without romantic bonds; distinct from polyamory and open relationships; documented from 1950s America, with 1982-2016 US demographic and sexual-health data.
Swinging Sixties
The Swinging Sixties, also called Swinging London, was the youth-driven mid-to-late 1960s cultural era named by Time in 1966, defined by the miniskirt, Mary Quant's King's Road boutiques, pop music, and Chelsea's Chelsea Set.
Swinglea glutinosa, ext.
Swinglea glutinosa, ext. is a botanical contact biofungicide from tabog leaves, sold as EcoSwing (Gowan, 2018), FRAC BM 01, approved in US and Canada, EU approval pending.
Swingo
Swingo, also known as Swingo Poker, is a shared-card poker game invented by Steve Albini in Chicago in 2007 and named after a Naked Raygun song.
SwinIR
SwinIR is a deep learning model for image restoration, proposed in 2021 by researchers at ETH Zurich as one of the first restoration models built on the Swin Transformer.
Świnoujście LNG terminal
The Świnoujście LNG terminal, officially the President Lech Kaczyński LNG Terminal, is Poland's LNG import and regasification facility on the Baltic coast, operated by GAZ-SYSTEM.
Swipe interface
The swipe interface is a mobile interaction pattern introduced by Tinder: users drag profile cards right to like or left to reject, and a match opens chat only when both accept.
Swiped (2025 film)
Swiped (2025) is a 20th Century Studios biographical drama, also called the Whitney Wolfe Herd film, directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg with Lily James as the Tinder co-founder and Bumble founder; it premiered at TIFF September 9, 2025 and streams on Hulu from September 19, 2025.
Swipejobs
Swipejobs is an AI job-matching platform for temporary, contract, and permanent work in the US and UK, founded by Katrina Leslie and reported at $1.3 billion revenue in 2025.
Swire
Swire, also known as Swire Group or Butterfield & Swire, is a privately held British family conglomerate whose London parent controls Hong Kong-listed Swire Pacific.
Swiri (쉬리)
Swiri (쉬리, Shiri), 1999 South Korean espionage action film by Kang Je-gyu starring Han Suk-kyu, Choi Min-sik, Song Kang-ho, and Kim Yun-jin; first Korean blockbuster, 6.2 million admissions, re-released in 4K in 2025.
Swirl injector
A swirl injector, also known as a pressure-swirl or simplex atomizer, is a device that atomizes fuel or propellant into a hollow-cone spray using internal rotational flow.
Swish (activation function)
Swish is a neural network activation function, f(x) = x·σ(βx), discovered by automated search at Google Brain in 2017 and used in architectures like EfficientNet and MobileNetV3.
Swish Swish
"Swish Swish" is a 2017 house-pop single by Katy Perry featuring Nicki Minaj from the album Witness, produced by Duke Dumont, widely read as a Taylor Swift diss track, peaking at UK No. 19 and No. 1 on Billboard Dance Club Songs.
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences
Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences (a+): association of four Swiss academies (SCNAT, SAHS, SAMS, SATW) plus TA-SWISS and Science et Cité, the Confederation's RIPA-mandated research networking body with over 100,000 members, seated in Bern.
Swiss Air Force
Swiss Air Force (Schweizer Luftwaffe), the militia-based air branch of the Swiss Armed Forces founded 1914: 30 F/A-18s until 2030, 25 F-5s in secondary roles, 36 F-35A from 2030, 24/7 15-minute QRA, under armed neutrality.
Swiss Alps
Swiss Alps: the Swiss portion of the Alpine range covering about 60% of Switzerland, with 48 peaks over 4,000 m, Dufourspitze (4,634 m), the 23 km Aletsch Glacier, and rapid glacier loss from climate change.
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch, inscribed as Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn in 2001, is a Swiss natural UNESCO World Heritage site protecting the Alps' most glaciated region and the Aletsch, Europe's largest glacier.
Swiss Armed Forces
Swiss Armed Forces (Schweizer Armee): Switzerland's militia military under armed neutrality since 1815, with compulsory male service, 360,000 mobilizable troops, 0.7% of GDP spending, and post-2022 reorientation toward territorial defence.
Swiss Army knife
The Swiss Army knife is a multifunctional pocket knife whose tools fold into the handle, made by Victorinox in Ibach, Switzerland and originally produced for the Swiss Army.
Swiss Army Man
Swiss Army Man (2016), the Daniels' feature debut, is a surrealist comedy-drama starring Paul Dano as a castaway and Daniel Radcliffe as a flatulent talking corpse; Sundance Directing Award winner distributed by A24.
Swiss Bank Corporation
Swiss Bank Corporation (Schweizerischer Bankverein) was a Basel-based Swiss bank, founded in 1872, that merged with Union Bank of Switzerland in 1998 to form UBS.
Swiss Broadcasting Corporation
The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) is Switzerland's non-profit public media company, the country's largest, running 17 radio stations and 7 TV channels in its four national languages.