"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.

For some, dictionaries are more than writing tools. They are doorways to discoveries.

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

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 ...

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 ...