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

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

This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and demonstrates how technology trends shape modern language evolution.

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 ...

From ‘rage bait’ to ‘parasocial’ to ‘vibe coding,’ 2025’s picks trace an internet-era feeling of exhaustion, skepticism — and figuring out what’s real ...

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

Merriam-Webster announced Thursday it has taken the rare step of fully revising and reimagining one of its most popular dictionaries with a fresh edition that adds over 5,000 new words, including ...

The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...

Brush up on Gen Z’s favorite buzzwords because they’ve officially entered our lexicon. Merriam-Webster has revealed the 200 new words they’ve added to the dictionary’s 2024 edition, including several ...

Merriam-Webster dictionary changed its definition of “sexual preference” to include the word “offensive” as Democrats slammed Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett for using the term during ...