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Recent Examples of prankster
On his first solo release in eight years, 100 gecs’ mutant-pop prankster turns his attention to relatively straightforward big-tent EDM—but not without a little noise-scene provocation.
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Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 25 Mar. 2026
When Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor first became a tabloid character in the 1980s, he was best known for his prankster nature, naval service, and a few scandalous girlfriends.
—Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
And Belushi, who is nothing short of a revelation in Stewart’s feature directing debut, would adjust his register, finding the sadness drowning in a sea of booze and revealing the struggling family man hiding behind the prankster persona.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
If there was humor to be shared — by her or at her — Turner was typically either the prankster, or the prankstee.
—Brian Robin, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
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Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 25 Mar. 2026
When Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor first became a tabloid character in the 1980s, he was best known for his prankster nature, naval service, and a few scandalous girlfriends.
—Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 19 Feb. 2026
And Belushi, who is nothing short of a revelation in Stewart’s feature directing debut, would adjust his register, finding the sadness drowning in a sea of booze and revealing the struggling family man hiding behind the prankster persona.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 11 Dec. 2025
If there was humor to be shared — by her or at her — Turner was typically either the prankster, or the prankstee.
—Brian Robin, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prankster
Noun
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The president’s instinct to go for the jugular was on display in his first campaign, when he was written off early on as an entertainer but found success with brutal takedowns.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
12 June 2026
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Winter wants to be strong enough to perform by August 1 when friend and fellow drag entertainer Charity Kase comes to Kansas City.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
11 June 2026
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How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?—
W.E. Gutman,
Sun Sentinel,
8 July 2025
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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
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But the knockabout violence has the effect of steamrolling the wit.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
4 June 2026
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Seeing a knockabout comedy set outdoors is a whole different barrel of laughs.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
28 Apr. 2026
Noun
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My mother was a total gem but also a bit of a rascal.—
Catherine Pearson,
New York Times,
8 May 2026
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Right now, the rascal in him slumbers, briefly glimpsed now and again behind dark shades.—
Emma Madden,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Feb. 2026
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Perry was best known for playing lovable wisecracker Chandler Bing on the hit sitcom Friends, and also starred in films like Fools Rush In and 17 Again.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 Dec. 2025
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When news of Israel’s secret outposts in Iraq’s desert emerged, Iraqis admonished their leaders as traitors, and the boisterous militiamen affiliated with the government as impostors for allowing their land to be colonized by an enemy.—
Nabil Salih,
Time,
26 May 2026
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These scams often include government impostors, direct deposit fraud, phishing, identity theft, payment redirection and social media scams.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
25 May 2026
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Yet as a child he was considered more clever than cutup.—
Adam Moss,
Vulture,
17 Apr. 2026
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Such systems also house analytics programming, sections where mock drafts are monitored to gauge external chatter about players, video libraries of film cutups, charts with testing results and more advanced metrics such as play speed.—
Jourdan Rodrigue,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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The aliens’ ability to take on the forms of stags, foxes and cardinals is also in line with what experiencers have reported about their visitations.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
13 June 2026
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But if a fox cub is in trouble, there are usually obvious clues that something isn't quite right.—
Michelle Mastro,
Martha Stewart,
13 June 2026
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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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