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

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

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

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

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

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

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with technology and artificial intelligence.

To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...