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Recent Examples of prankster
The novel is written by Tim Waggoner, and Variety is sharing an exclusive excerpt from, arguably, the film’s most brutal scene: Art the Clown’s prolonged torture of high schooler Allie, during which the murderous prankster gets a bit…salty.
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William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
Always the prankster, Hernández grabbed the groin of third-base coach Dino Ebel on his trot.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
The principal’s search for the prankster intensifies in tandem with the anti-government protests that flare up around the city, but those concerns are flattened into a backdrop for Sora’s poignantly observational study of what happens when a generation meets its moment and vice-versa.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2024
Clooney said his prankster reputation has made his friends fear him.
—Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024
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William Earl, Variety, 1 Oct. 2024
Always the prankster, Hernández grabbed the groin of third-base coach Dino Ebel on his trot.
—Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
The principal’s search for the prankster intensifies in tandem with the anti-government protests that flare up around the city, but those concerns are flattened into a backdrop for Sora’s poignantly observational study of what happens when a generation meets its moment and vice-versa.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 Sep. 2024
Clooney said his prankster reputation has made his friends fear him.
—Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prankster
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Still, our heroes are not traditional heroes but rather scoundrels and knaves and outcasts, all of whom have complex inner turmoil and compelling character arcs.Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Alice begs for the knave’s freedom, putting herself in danger.Liesbeth Powers, Dallas News, 27 May 2023
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Reynolds thrived in front of a live studio audience, playing a college-age rascal who was more interested in messing with his friends and pursuing harebrained schemes than deciding on a major.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 2 Aug. 2024
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The druid Merlin rears his ugly head, and is far from the affable rascal of T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, though the two books are both attempts to update Arthur’s legend for a contemporary audience.Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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In some cases, existing employees with clean records may choose to go rogue.Andrew Sever, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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The Pentagon says that the facilities were built to intercept missiles fired by rogue states like Iran.Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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But don’t be fooled — what might seem like a clandestine cannabis crop is often just a harmless impostor.Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 25 June 2024
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While that may have been the case, the country’s oligarchs have unwittingly turned this volatile impostor into a folk hero whose power may not diminish even outside the chancellor’s sphere of influence.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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That goes for deer, fox, bobcat, bears and other animals.Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2024
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Coyotes also, through competitive exclusion, keep populations of raccoon, skunks, opossums and foxes naturally regulated.Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
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The comedienne wore her brunette tresses in a braided half-updo, while her makeup consisted of a smokey eye, rosy blush and a glossy nude lip.Hannah Malach, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
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Will & Grace and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres are credited with playing significant roles in transforming the image of gay Americans and, as such, the modern LGBTQ equity movement.Keli Goff, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Oct. 2024
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But in Wicked, he's elevated to an even more sinister place — not merely a charlatan, but a fraud who has seized power and wants to use the magic of others to create a totalitarian world that answers to his every whim.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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One exception is Cotton Marcus, the charlatan at the center of The Last Exorcism.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 9 Dec. 2024.
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