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Recent Examples of prankster
The parents normally react with outrage before the pranksters reveal themselves.
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Kara Fox, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
Way back in the two-thousand-and-teens, the loose coalition of white nationalists, neo-Nazi pranksters and anti-immigrant extremists was more likely to be found in obscure corners of the internet than on mainstream conservative outlets like Fox News.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2025
Joe Alwyn was a prankster as a kid.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 19 Jan. 2025
At the 2024 Film Awards YouTube prankster Lizwani snuck on stage as Christopher Nolan and his Oppenheimer team accepted the award for Best Film.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025
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Kara Fox, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
Way back in the two-thousand-and-teens, the loose coalition of white nationalists, neo-Nazi pranksters and anti-immigrant extremists was more likely to be found in obscure corners of the internet than on mainstream conservative outlets like Fox News.
—Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 4 Mar. 2025
Joe Alwyn was a prankster as a kid.
—Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 19 Jan. 2025
At the 2024 Film Awards YouTube prankster Lizwani snuck on stage as Christopher Nolan and his Oppenheimer team accepted the award for Best Film.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prankster
Noun
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The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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Human beings are motivated by virtue (knights) or rigid self-interest (knaves), or are passive victims of their circumstances (pawns).—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Alex has two choices: Linger at Union Station and see what rascals cross her path, or take up an invitation to join her British guardian angels at their home in Winnetka.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2025
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After their car is stolen, the group of rascals must resort to some hilarious hijinks to get past the finish line.—
Kara Nesvig,
Parents,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Harry goes searching for Seraphina and Brendan, who've gone rogue.—
Billie Melissa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
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Ellie’s choppy boat ride, the rogue wave washing her ashore, her capture and release at the hands of the cult — all were colorful and dramatic but felt abrupt and even extraneous to the story.—
Mary McNamara,
Los Angeles Times,
26 May 2025
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Fortunately, plant enthusiasts quickly chimed in to identify the impostor.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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Adelaide Tovar, a University of Michigan scientist who researches genes related to diabetes, used to feel like an impostor in a laboratory.—
Brett Kelman,
Miami Herald,
1 May 2025
Noun
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Martinez was looking at cutups Monday morning of 6-6, 20-year-old right-hander Travis Sykora, Washington’s third-round pick in 2023, who’s coming on, uh, quickly.—
David Aldridge,
The Athletic,
27 Aug. 2024
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Apparently all-in on Reynolds, Hollywood is now reasoning that his star power — some chemically adhesive combination of dashing leading man, comic-relief cutup, and lifestyle mogul — will prove irresistible regardless of the context.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 May 2024
Noun
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Wildlife watchers can spot bobcats, foxes, otters, alligators, turtles and manatees, with more than 150 bird species flying among mangrove, cypress, palmetto and pine trees.—
Ruffin Prevost,
New York Times,
21 May 2025
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The Algerian Sahara is also home to several animals like the desert fox, wild sheep, jackal and gazelle.—
Angela Dansby,
CNN Money,
14 May 2025
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This time, the comedienne was asked back to comment on Newark’s airport safety, acting out a bit while on a JetBlue flight.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
17 May 2025
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Choi is a talented comedienne, so some of her too-drunk drama scenes are entertainingly funny, but at the same time her character’s self-destructive tendencies are also heartbreaking.—
Joan MacDonald,
Forbes.com,
14 May 2025
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Trying to keep the population safe from a novel infectious disease, battling to understand the virus, but also navigating people's suspicion of vaccines and science, and their desire to use bleach and ivermectin, egged on by charlatans.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
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For them, the Nazarene is not a charlatan, but an upright man, one who has courage, who speaks well and says the right things, like other great prophets in the history of Israel.—
Daniel Burke,
NPR,
9 May 2025
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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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