Speaking from his home in Washington, D.C., Fatsis reflects on the thousands of words that were added to the lexicon in 2025, ...

People made a terrible fuss when Dictionary.com named “6–7” its word of the year. Brain rot, people said. Language has gone ...

Merriam-Webster names “slop” its 2025 Word of the Year, spotlighting the rise of low-quality AI-generated content flooding ...

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Merriam-Webster selected ‘slop’ as its 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality AI-generated digital content that increasingly floods the internet. PCWorld reports this AI-related definition ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...

SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts — Creepy, zany, and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial ...

Merriam-Webster has chosen "slop" as its biggest buzzword of the year. The US dictionary publisher says the word reflects a growing frustration — and fascination ...

“Slop” has been crowned the 2025 word of the year by Merriam-Webster — but its newest definition might not mean what you think it means. For most of its existence, the word “slop” has been referred to ...