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.

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

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 ...

If a weird-looking talking cat on the internet tells you to “touch grass” in a meandering congressional district, and then performatively sings the numbers “6-7,” those are the words of 2025. “Slop,” ...

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 ...

There was a time when Urban Dictionary felt essential. Twenty-six years ago, when then-college freshman Aaron Peckham founded ...