Merriam-Webster names “slop” its 2025 Word of the Year, spotlighting the rise of low-quality AI-generated content flooding ...

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

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

A group that advocates for judicial clerks has accused a Connecticut appeals court judge of bullying and mistreating her ...

The department said it has received multiple reports about the trend that is called “The Door Kick Challenge” on TikTok.

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and demonstrates how technology trends shape modern language evolution.

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 ...

The Legal Accountability Project complaint, which has not been previously reported, states that it is based on conversations ...

The Merriam Police Department is warning parents and teens about what they’re calling a “dangerous TikTok trend.” ...

For the first time in more than 20 years, Merriam-Webster is out with a new edition of its “Collegiate Dictionary.” The 12th Edition includes some 5,000 new words and weighs almost five pounds. WBUR’s ...

Merriam-Webster has officially crowned ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year. The term, which originally referred to soft mud or pig food, has evolved to describe the flood of low-quality digital ...