After a long day of doomscrolling through dystopian-esque political drama, market meltdowns, and climate crises, it’s only natural to want a brief break from reality. But as real life has begun to ...

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity ...

"Slop" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year for 2025, meaning more people than ever need to "touch grass," which, as it happens, is also one of the 194-year-old dictionary's top words of 2025. "We ...

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 ...

Some people might describe 2025 as "sloppy" in more ways than one. Merriam-Webster's editors picked “slop” as the 2025 Word of the Year, the Springfield, Massachusetts-based company announced on ...

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

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 ...