- past participle of swim.
swum
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He has swum against the tide and now he is very much in the train of modern football, and at the front.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
At the border town of Fnideq, anti-riot vehicles were stationed along the beach where the migrants had swum to Ceuta.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
"It turned onto its back and they thought that it was dead. But by the time we went back, it was back onto its right side and it had swum a bit upstream," he explained.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
An affidavit from Ghost tendered in court on Tuesday described how she and MacInnes had swum at the beach in the early evening of September 2023, returning to her apartment feeling cold.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
It was seawater coming in on the tide, and it was strange to Lyra, who had never swum in salt water before.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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