When turning your head, looking twice and thrice, asking a friend doesn't do much for these very confusing perspectives.

The University of Hawaii at Manoa English department has selected “analogue” as its 2025 Word of the Year for Hawaii, ...

This name combo pits two extremely contradictory concepts of style, values, and leadership against each other in a way that ...

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

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The word describes the onslaught of "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

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

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 — with poor-quality generative AI floo ...

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

Merriam-Webster's editors picked “slop” as the 2025 Word of the Year, the Springfield, Massachusetts-based company announced ...

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...