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Recent Examples of prankster
In July, a cyber-prankster reportedly sent 50 driverless Waymo vehicles down a dead-end street in San Francisco, another incident that went viral.
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Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 2 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
Your inner prankster awakens during Mercury retrograde.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
However, the young prankster alleges Cairo acted more violently than originally believed.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 2 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
Your inner prankster awakens during Mercury retrograde.
—Usa Today, USA Today, 9 Nov. 2025
However, the young prankster alleges Cairo acted more violently than originally believed.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prankster
Noun
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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
Noun
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Jenny McCarthy, the entertainer now perhaps best known for claiming with no evidence that vaccines cause autism, also touts the benefits of nicotine for health.—
Sarah Todd,
STAT,
20 Feb. 2026
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Besides, this film makes no claims to do anything other than celebrate a legendary entertainer in full command of his powers.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Feb. 2026
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Mozart, however, isn’t merely a puerile rascal, as his relationship with Lauren Worsham’s Constanze reveals.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Feb. 2026
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Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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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
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The concern was not one rogue teacher or isolated incident.—
Robert Casper,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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In the mid-Aughts, armed with the theorem, the rationalists discovered that humanity is in jeopardy of a rogue superintelligent AI wiping out all life on the planet.—
Sam Kriss,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Feb. 2026
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Days later, a note was sent directly to the Guthrie family, allegedly from a man living in Hawthorne, that authorities now say was an impostor.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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The mood in the village shifts from suspicion to open hostility as the locals become more and more convinced that Hein is an impostor.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
11 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
Noun
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Watch for wildlife, too—though many animals hibernate, foxes and bobcats remain active all winter.—
Skye Sherman,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Feb. 2026
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What's more, the European Commission is planning to announce a decision on banning the holding and killing of mink, foxes, raccoon, dogs and chinchilla, and marketing of fur products from those animals, according to its website.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.
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