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Recent Examples of prankster
Vitalii Sediuk, an infamous serial prankster known for targeting major celebrity events, attempted to crash the gala wearing nothing but a pink mankini and a gold chain.
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Alyssa Modos,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
Not even a prankster who drew five fire engines to the scene with a false report of a fire could dampen the crowd’s enthusiasm, Schmidt writes.
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Charlotte Observer,
16 Apr. 2026
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
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.
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Clayton Davis,
Variety,
11 Dec. 2025
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Alyssa Modos,
PEOPLE,
4 May 2026
Not even a prankster who drew five fire engines to the scene with a false report of a fire could dampen the crowd’s enthusiasm, Schmidt writes.
—
Charlotte Observer,
16 Apr. 2026
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.
—
Colin Joyce,
Pitchfork,
25 Mar. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prankster
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The 31-year-old entertainer surpassed Kevin Hart, who previously held the record after hosting the awards show in 2011.
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The entertainer gained notoriety on social media in the late 2010s for his sketches mocking everyday scenarios.
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Try for yourselves, ye witless knaves— Take each to bed your Sally!
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Many a knave is rich, sleek, and honored, while the just man is poor, hated, and in torment.
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But the knockabout violence has the effect of steamrolling the wit.
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Seeing a knockabout comedy set outdoors is a whole different barrel of laughs.
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Even though the Feeneys have gotten more competitive under the junior Michel’s management, the rascal-on-the-field ethos of the original team still prevails.
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Not even the curmudgeonly Melvin can bring himself to harm the little rascal.
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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.
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Savannah continues to ask the public for help locating her missing mother, while an imposter who sent fraudulent ransom demands has been arrested.
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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.
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Yet as a child he was considered more clever than cutup.
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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.
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Options for activities include paddleboarding and chasing Arctic swells in the fjords, sailing through sea cliffs and the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, and spotting whales, seals, Arctic foxes, and more wildlife.
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Just as hedgehogs deplore foxes for a lack of theoretical ambition, foxes spend their time screaming at hedgehogs for missing this or that eloquent detail.
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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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