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Following Oxford's recent reveal, the winning term reflects growing public awareness - and bemusement - over the rise of AI-produced material in everyday life.

The dictionary has selected one word every year since 2003 to capture and make sense of the current moment. Here’s Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year – and what it means.

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

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