prankster

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Recent Examples of prankster TikTok videos often feature variations where pranksters pound on or kick people’s front doors. Holly Yan, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025 In California, a 45-year-old man who ran down a group of ding-dong ditch pranksters, killing three teenagers, was sentenced in 2023 to life in prison. Dennis Romero, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2025 One of those incidents involved Sophie Cunningham, two of them did not make it to the court, and the final prankster did not make an attempt. Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2025 There is Worry Bear, the concerned bear, Clancy, the insecure giraffe, and Julius, the prankster monkey. Staff Report, Oc Register, 31 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for prankster
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Noun
  • Rescued repeatedly by Anderson’s surehandedness as an entertainer, One Battle After Another is clearly the best picture that could have been made from so self-indulgent a script.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Fortune has chronicled Swift’s elevation to billionaire status, noting Bloomberg’s estimate anchored in catalog value, touring/merch, streaming, and real estate—framed as a rare case of an entertainer reaching the mark primarily through music and performance.
    Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • How does history distinguish knaves from legendary figures?
    W.E. Gutman, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2025
  • 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
  • This new film is a very black comedy that is also a heist story with some bloody violence, along with a bit of knockabout slapstick and a theme of family bonds.
    Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • And Eli was, at times, a bit of a rascal.
    David Kamp, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In the process of the deal going bad, Vince presumably kills a man with his car, but since it’s never mentioned again during the course of the series, he’s allowed to be treated as a lovable rascal.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The rogue planet, which does not orbit any star, is called Cha 1107-7626 and is outside of our solar system, 620 light-years from Earth in the Chamaeleon constellation.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Their findings indicate that the formation of at least some rogue planets may bear a similarity to that of stars.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
  • That’s until their cover in California Schemin’ as rapping imposters was blown and the emotional strain of denying their Scottishness and their fractured friendship revealed itself.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The train includes views of wildflowers, geologic formations, deer, antelope, elk, fox, eagles, and sometimes even bears.
    Opheli Garcia Lawler, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Eventually, Jerry — a civil engineer — joined in too, saving his leftovers for the fox.
    Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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