After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

“Slop” is the new Merriam-Webster word of the year, thanks to the flood of low-quality artificial intelligence images and ...

As 2025 comes to a close, Merriam-Webster is marking an annual tradition ...

Digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence – this is how the ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

Merriam-Webster has a message for the Trump administration: There is no such thing as an "alternative fact." There are facts, and then there are falsehoods. That memo was at least implied this week ...

Today Merriam-Webster announced the 2025 Word of the Year: slop. Slop is defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” ...

Merriam-Webster has named the word “slop” as its 2025 World of the Year, reflecting the crises of modern age characterized by ...