Merriam-Webster has revealed “Slop” as its Word of the Year for 2025, highlighting a term that surged in usage online over ...

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 ...

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To select its Word of the Year, Merriam-Webster’s editors review data on which words rose in search volume and usage, then ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...

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