The Merriam-Webster dictionary added 455 new words to its collection in October 2021. These included words that emerged from online communication, which has only increased amidst the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Both Dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster have declared “pandemic” to be the 2020 Word of the Year. In posts on their respective websites Monday, November 30th, both publications explained their ...

Discover the Merriam-Webster Word of the Year for 2022—and why it might have gained so much momentum. Whether you consider yourself a word nerd who’s always looking for new words in the dictionary or ...

Springfield, MA, Dec. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Merriam-Webster announced its 2024 Word of the Year: polarization. Lookup volume of polarization on Merriam-Webster.com throughout 2024 ...

According to a news release from the dictionary, “Slop” is Merriam-Webster's word of 2025. The word is defined as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called "slop." The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the ...

It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year. The dictionary defines the term as "digital content of low quality that is ...

Merriam-Webster's dictionary is adding a new entry to the definition of the pronoun “they”: a way to refer to a nonbinary individual, one who identifies as neither exclusively male nor female.

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is one that the dictionary suggests unifies both sides of the aisle. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive ...