For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as ...

Some people might describe 2025 as "sloppy" in more ways than one. Merriam-Webster's editors picked “slop” as the 2025 Word of the Year, the Springfield, Massachusetts-based company announced on ...

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In some ways, it’s the perfect word for 2025, when AI-generated videos of varying quality constantly flood the Internet – ...

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.

For us linguists, the flurry of "word of the year" announcements from dictionaries and publishers is a holiday tradition as anticipated as mince pies ...

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

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In a move likely unsurprising to regular readers of this fine publication, Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'Slop' (via ...

Merriam-Webster crowns 'Slop' as 'Word of the Year 2025' as generative AI content has littered the internet, alongside "Touch ...