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

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

Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it happens, is also one of the 194-year-old dictionary's top words of 2025. "We define slop as ...

With 2025 nearly over, it seems as though everyone is feeling tired in the same way. Tired of the feed, the noise, and trying ...

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year – and what it means.

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and ...

Flood of slop in 2025 included absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books,' says US dictionary - Anadolu Ajansı ...

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 ...

Traditionally, slop referred to soft mud, waste food, or other messy, valueless substances. But in 2025, the word has taken on a new cultural meaning - it’s now used to describe AI-generated digital ...

Merriam-Webster named slop its 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality digital content produced by artificial intelligence.

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 to mean something of little value. The definition has since expanded to mean ...

Digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence – this is how the dictionary ...