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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

If a weird-looking talking cat on the internet tells you to “touch grass” in a meandering congressional district, and then performatively sings the numbers “6-7,” those are the words of 2025. “Slop,” ...

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.

Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including ...

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