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

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

Earlier this year, Oxford University Press chose "rage bait" as its word of the year, while Dictionary.com picked the meme ...

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

The American dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” The human editors of the publisher said that the slop ...

If a weird-looking talking cat on the internet tells you to “touch grass” in a meandering congressional district, and then performatively sings the numbers “6-7,” those are the words of 2025. “Slop,” ...

From Glassdoor's "fatigue" to Oxford Dictionary's "rage bait," the words of 2025 is reflecting a sense of exhaustion and inability to opt-out.

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

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

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