The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

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

All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

In 2025, Merriam-Webster named 'SLOP' as the Word of the Year, describing low-quality AI-generated content flooding digital ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s human editors took aim at artificial intelligence (AI) by choosing “slop” as their 2025 Word ...

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 ...

Last year, shortly after the U.S. presidential election and amid the shifting national mood, Merriam-Webster chose the word ...

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...

Relatedly, tech words have been big winners in the WOTY (word of the year) category this year. Macquarie Dictionary already ...