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"Swole," "bug-out bag," "go-cup" and "omnicide" are just a few of the 640 additions to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary Monday. By The Associated Press Get “swole,” prepare a “bug-out bag,” grab a “go-cup ...

If you worked as a typist for Merriam-Webster in the pre-internet era, one of your tasks would have been typing out every ...

Merriam-Webster names “slop” its 2025 Word of the Year, spotlighting the rise of low-quality AI-generated content flooding ...

The current versions of the definition of racism do not tell the full story and this may muddy the waters and limit people’s understanding of what racism is and how it can manifest in our systems and ...

"Gaslighting" — mind manipulating, grossly misleading, downright deceitful — is Merriam-Webster's word of the year. Lookups for the word on merriam-webster.com increased 1,740% in 2022 over the year ...

Merriam-Webster announced Monday that its word of the year for 2023 is “authentic,” in a nod to the rise of artificial intelligence and a spread of misinformation on social media platforms.

The newest definition of "slop" is described as "absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real" and more Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend ...

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 the ...

The singular "they" is a pronoun option for people who don't strongly identify as either male or female and want to avoid "he" and "she." ...