Writing Prompt 298 – monstrous mediocrity

February 4, 2026.Reading time 2 minutes.

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Covid-19

February 3, 2026.Reading time 156 minutes.

Forbidden Words Project

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“Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic.”
from — Wikipedia contributors. (2026, January 29). COVID-19. Wikipedia.

continuum

February 2, 2026.Reading time 15 minutes.

Forbidden Words Project

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“But AI is a continuum of technologies, it’s not one thing.”
From The Wall Street Journal

contaminants of environmental concern

February 1, 2026.Reading time 64 minutes.

Forbidden Words Project

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“CEC include different substances like pharmaceuticals, personal care products, industrial byproducts, and agricultural chemicals. These substances often bypass regular detection and treatment processes, leading to their unintended persistence in the environment.”
from — Wikipedia contributors. (2025b, December 12). Contaminants of emerging concern. Wikipedia.

clink clink clink

January 31, 2026.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Reader Response / American Sentence

community

January 31, 2026.Reading time 8 minutes.

Forbidden Words Project

“A group of organisms or populations living and interacting with one another in a particular environment. The organisms in a community affect each other’s abundance, distribution, and evolutionary adaptation. Depending on how broadly one views the interaction between organisms, a community can be small and local, as in a pond or tree, or regional or global, as in a biome.”
from — Definition of community. (n.d.).