"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with ...

The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up ...

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...