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

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

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 ...

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

Traditionally, slop referred to soft mud, waste food, or other messy, valueless substances. But in 2025, the word has taken on a new cultural meaning - it’s now used to describe AI-generated digital ...

Merriam-Webster has officially crowned ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year. The term, which originally referred to soft mud ...

The folks behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary apparently want to have some words with Santa Claus ― mostly about the names he gave some of his reindeer. The dictionary asked some hard yet hilarious ...

With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) infiltrating our social media pages, videos, schools and more, there's one question on a lot of people's minds − is it real? As folks seek out the truth, ...

It means downright deceitful. Manipulating. Misleading. Merriam-Webster has named its word of 2022 - "gaslighting." The official definition for "gaslighting," according to Merriam-Webster, is the ...

When you think of Marshawn Lynch, you should forever think about him going Beast Mode. The future Pro Football Hall of Famer went Beast Mode on one of the greatest runs in NFL history. The 2010 ...

AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught of content that has swept the web over the past 12 months, Merriam-Webster ...