It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year.

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Merriam-Webster's word of the year? Slop.

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...

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Lexicon experts at Merriam-Webster have chosen the word that sums up 2025. This year it is slop.

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