The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

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

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

Cambridge Dictionary has revealed "parasocial" as its word of the year for 2025, defined as involving a connection someone ...

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

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

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

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

In 2025, Merriam-Webster named 'SLOP' as the Word of the Year, describing low-quality AI-generated content flooding digital ...

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

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