prankster

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Recent Examples of prankster 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 Not with the return of coffee culture but with a new lineup from a YouTube prankster called PUMP energy which contains six hundred milligrams of caffeine per can, in flavors like Lemonade Ice Nicotine and Strawberry Sports-Betting. Reuven Perlman, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025 Michael Shannon can be a prankster, particularly during interviews conducted over the phone. Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for prankster
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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
  • In straightforward and compelling prose, Sammy, then 40, tells the story of his vaudeville beginnings, his growth as an entertainer, and his movement through America.
    Questlove, The Atlantic, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The teaser features the nephew of the late superstar entertainer recreating dance moves on stage or from memorable rock videos.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The hilarious hijinks that ensue are centered on a rugby-playing rascal whose initial interests in pulling chicks and working get-rich-quick schemes give way to a lifelong love of writing poetry in the post-Soviet-occupation era of the 1990s.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
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
  • Installing strong antivirus software adds real-time protection against phishing, unsafe links, and rogue apps.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And the details include a rogue’s gallery of characters who together underscore the whack-a-mole challenge of combating money laundering.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In another film with a less happy outcome, the woman who claims to be the amnesiac’s wife is an impostor who ends up torturing him.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Oct. 2025
  • McKelway, who wrote for the magazine from the nineteen-thirties to the sixties, specialized in true-crime stories, bringing to life a gallery of scamps and swindlers and impostors.
    David Grann, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • According to folklore, a magical fox runs across the snowy wilderness of Lapland, and as its tail brushes against the snowflakes, sparks fly into the sky, creating the lights.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The virus has also proved fatal to foxes and skunks in Kansas that likely ate something infected, Hesting said.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025

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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.

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