I would venture that this is how many people think about print dictionaries: as battered, well-traveled relics that they like ...

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

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

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

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All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company said. “People found it annoying, and people ate it ...

After a year filled with news about artificial intelligence, the transformation of pop culture and more, Merriam-Webster has ...

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

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

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

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"Slop" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it ...