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

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.

Merriam-Webster chose "slop" as its word of the year for 2025, and that is correct because AI trash is everywhere. The post ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with technology and artificial intelligence.

Discover the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year for 2022—and why it might have gained so much momentum. Whether you consider yourself a word nerd who’s always looking for new words in the dictionary or ...

Merriam-Webster has announced its 2022 word of the year: "gaslighting." Gaslighting – defined broadly as "the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage" – gained ...

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"Gaslighting" — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — is Merriam-Webster's word of the year. Lookups for the word on merriam-webster.com increased 1,740% in 2022 over the year ...