How ‘slop’ became the defining word of 2025

Grace Snelling / fastcompany - It’s official: 2025 was the year of slop.Merriam-Webster just announced in a post that its “human editors” have chosen “slop” as the 2025 Word of the Year.The dictionary’s official definition of the word is “digital content of low quality that is produced…

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