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Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year has already outlived its usefulness.

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Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define ...

AI-generated content has dominated the internet over the past year, and America's dictionary took note.

Editors at Merriam-Webster, America's oldest dictionary publisher, picked "slop" as 2025's word and say it helped define the ...

Merriam-Webster has settled on a word that represents 2025 — and that word is “slop.” The dictionary-maker defines “slop” as ...

Sometimes, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is predictable. And 2025 was one of those years.

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