"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year.

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s ...

Merriam-Webster is the latest in a string of dictionaries to choose words of the year based on our relationship with technology and artificial intelligence.

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 ...

The word "slop" was first used to refer to soft mud in the 1700s, but has since evolved to mean of little value — especially when referring to online content of low quality that's made with artificial ...

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s human editors took aim at artificial intelligence (AI) by choosing “slop” as their 2025 Word ...

If you work at your PC, you have a choice between fumbling with aheavy paper dictionary or firing up your browser to surf to one.Talking Merriam-Webster Dictionary makes things easier, keeping ...