This linguistic shift reflects growing concerns about artificial intelligence’s impact on digital content quality and demonstrates how technology trends shape modern language evolution.

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Runners up included "gerrymander," "touch grass," "performative" and "tariff." It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year. The ...

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After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: “slop.” The dictionary publisher defined it as “digital content of low ...

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