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.

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

The word 'slop' is the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year 2025. Learn about its transition from 'pig food' to AI jargon and how ...

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

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally to mean something of little value. The definition has ...

An Foclóir Nua Gaeilge, the new monolingual Irish dictionary, "has the potential to transform the teaching and learning of ...

From ‘rage bait’ to ‘parasocial’ to ‘vibe coding,’ 2025’s picks trace an internet-era feeling of exhaustion, skepticism — and figuring out what’s real ...

Digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence – this is how the ...

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

The dominance of words like slop, vibe coding, glazing, paraoscial and clanker shows that AI is now playing a huge role in ...