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

It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year.The ...

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

All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company said. “People found it annoying, and people ate it ...

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

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

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

Slop is defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence," ...