prankster

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Recent Examples of prankster Michael Shannon can be a prankster, particularly during interviews conducted over the phone. Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025 Every great car earns a nickname, and this one became known as Jochen, in honor of the late, great Jochen Maas, the bon vivant merry prankster who piloted a Sauber-Mercedes Silver Arrow to victory at Le Mans in 1989. Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for prankster
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Noun
  • Guided by the examples of Will Smith and Denzel Washington, the entertainer’s mindset is about longevity, range, and impact.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 21 Oct. 2025
  • June was proud to be an entertainer.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Oct. 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
  • While en route, a rogue AI called PAL (Olivia Colman) commanders an army of robots to launch a worldwide rebellion against humanity.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Look out for these signs that your face products have gone rogue.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • He is dismissed as an impostor, but is his story true?
    Phillipa Gregory, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There is a video cutup that has frequented social media over the last year featuring all of Edwards’ missed shots at the end of close games.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 23 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • One New York Times story from 1937 described the popular costumes as paper-based — King Winter and ghosts for adults; ducks, squirrels, and foxes for kids.
    Mark Dent, HubSpot, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Moreover, local wildlife such as coyotes, foxes, dog and alligators often prey on cats.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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