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In a year dominated by the booming AI industry and an overwhelming flood of digital creations, Merriam-Webster has crowned "slop" as its 2025 Word of the Year. This four-letter word acts as a judgment ...

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

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

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