pranksters

plural of prankster

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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
  • The former child actors have grown up since their go-kart derby days on-screen — some have even welcomed their own little rascals off-screen.
    Keith Langston, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Actor Zac Efron, NBA star Jimmy Butler and MMA fighter Paddy Pimblett simultaneously posted similar-style teasers through their Instagram accounts on Saturday.
    Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The full capabilities will likely be shown in later teasers and, eventually, the full reveal.
    Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To tell the truly venomous from the fakers, there are a couple details to help distinguish the two.
    Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But times have changed, and this team of buffoons is forced to grapple with changing industry ethics and sensationalist journalism in its transition, all while Ron faces an identity crisis that challenges his bravado, his massive ego.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As experts departed, quacks arrived.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Medallion’s Derek Lo figures that his software can cut through the system’s redundancies, slashing the time and cost of paperwork designed to prevent quacks from practicing medicine and safeguard patients that’s spiraled into something burdensome.
    Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Among the colorful cast of rogues, villains, queens and clergymen, Andre The Giant stands out as the young suitor’s kind-hearted but stupid brute.
    Duane Byrge, HollywoodReporter, 25 Sep. 2025
  • This quiz will test your knowledge, challenge your assumptions, and maybe even teach you something new about the rocky rogues of our solar system.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For Jones, that means confronting her childhood fear of clowns.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
  • In an operating room, a mad doctor performs plastic surgery to turn new recruits into killer clowns.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
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“Pranksters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pranksters. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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