Imagine its the holidays, and you are sitting at a long table sharing food, swapping conversations and enjoying the laughter that spills from one person to the next. You might not call this scene ...

Merriam-Webster likens the word “slop” to terms like “slime”, “sludge” and “muck”, and says it conveys a wet, unpleasant sound. Something you’d rather not touch. Over the year, the word is considered ...

A quick look at the attainability of getting the top 10 toughest words. No reason to dillydally. By Eve Washington The reporter reviewed millions of data records, a process that doubled as an ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...

So much so that Merriam-Webster announced it as the dictionary's 2025 Word of the Year. Slop is defined as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial ...

Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it has become a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Springfield-based dictionary company Merriam-Webster has announced that “Slop” is the Word of the Year for 2025. “Slop” is now defined as describing digital content of low ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it the ...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up, toss our calendars and hope the next 12 are better. Last year, following ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief In a world of digital noise and clutter ...

Sometimes, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is predictable. And 2025 was one of those years. Extremely unsurprisingly, the famous and venerable publisher of dictionaries and other reference ...