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

Slop” has been crowned the 2025 word of the year by Merriam-Webster — but its newest definition might not mean what you think ...

Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally ...

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

A growing surge of fake or weird content online often called ‘slop’ has been named Word of the Year 2025. The Merriam-Webster ...

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

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

“Slop” is the new Merriam-Webster word of the year, thanks to the flood of low-quality artificial intelligence images and ...

Today Merriam-Webster announced the 2025 Word of the Year: slop. Slop is defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” ...

Merriam-Webster has chosen "slop" as its buzzword for the year. The US dictionary publisher says the word reflects a growing ...

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