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In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026 -
In a time when unemployment is on the rise and the rich are running amok and wreaking havoc on the poor — and the social services in place to support them — who doesn’t love the idea of rogue rascals sticking it to a bougie institution by running off with its crown jewels?—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
Refinery29,
12 Nov. 2025
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And the Sharks have no obvious replacement for him — no young whippersnapper in the pipeline ready for his moment.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
30 Dec. 2025
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And Markey has defeated whippersnapper-type political foes before.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Oct. 2025
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Gods of Egypt is actually told from the point of view of a young rapscallion named Bek, played by Brenton Thwaites.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Actual: When two rapscallion owners work together to stack a team with their best players, usually when one of the rat-bastards has been eliminated from the playoffs.—
Bill Reinhard,
New York Daily News,
3 Aug. 2025
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In Victorious Cupid, Caravaggio demolished Renaissance ideals of the chubby, celestial putto by depicting a young god with the body of an Adonis and the face and feet of a cheeky street urchin.—
Tobias Grey,
Air Mail,
27 Dec. 2025
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After the multi-year marine heatwave hit the North Pacific in late 2013, warmer ocean temperatures that followed not only stressed kelp but also worsened the spread of sea star wasting disease that wiped out sunflower sea stars — one of the purple urchin’s main predators.—
Chaewon Chung
December 11,
Sacbee.com,
11 Dec. 2025
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After China made investments in Panama, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic, all three countries agreed to cut their diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which Beijing views as a rogue province.—
Simon Shuster,
The Atlantic,
14 Jan. 2026
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This represents a breakdown in checks and balances, and a lack of political courage on the part of Republicans to constrain a rogue president.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Meta back in the antitrust crosshairs Meta can’t get the antitrust monkey off its back.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
21 Jan. 2026
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The snow monkeys who live here are considered the world’s northernmost wild populations of all non-human primates.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
21 Jan. 2026
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The company had a Cytomegalovirus vaccine – aimed at preventing severe symptoms in infants – which in November 2025 failed its Phase 3 trial while the Food and Drug Administration requested additional data for the company’s flu/COVID combination vaccine.—
Peter Cohan,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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The average cost of full-time child care for a family with an infant and a 4-year-old amounts to $28,000, according to advocacy group Child Care Aware of America.—
Mary Cunningham,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Mykal-Michelle Harris from Raven’s Home guest-stars as Ruby, a mischievous moon imp who tricks Vee.—
Allison McClain Merrill,
Parents,
27 Oct. 2025
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It’s believed that the 13th-century castle is haunted by a magical imp who frequently visits the Markomanka and Hlíza, or black, towers.—
Sophie Friedman,
AFAR Media,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Jackanapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jackanapes. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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