Merriam-Webster names slop as its 2025 word of the year
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Key Points:
- Merriam-Webster has named "slop" as its 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality digital content often produced in large quantities by artificial intelligence, reflecting the rise of absurd videos, fake news, and junky AI-written materials on social media.
- Other notable words for Merriam-Webster in 2025 include "gerrymander," "touch grass," "performative," "tariff," "six seven," and "conclave," with interest also sparked by the lengthy name of Webster Lake in Massachusetts due to its appearance in online gaming.
- Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is primarily based on spikes in search data, linking the selection to current events, as seen in
