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An example use of swish in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… you know there's no magic swish you know …”
Swish is the sound of something moving quickly through the air.
the word swish occurs in english on average 1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that swish can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) life, nature, and living environment;
3) people, society, and culture;