Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is "Slop"
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is "Slop"
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2025 Word of the Year: Slop

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen slop as the 2025 Word of the Year. We define slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again.