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Recent Examples of pratfall
Even the pratfalls and the puns and double entendres..
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Peter Larsen,
Daily News,
2 Dec. 2025
Cooper gets considerable humorous mileage out of his goofy stoner role, starting with a guffaw-inducing pratfall entrance involving an exploding carton of oat milk.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Oct. 2025
Again, Gardner ports a movie type onto the sketch-comedy stage and turns up the volume just enough for the character to seem hilariously damaged, culminating in a Melissa McCarthy–worthy pratfall.
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Jesse Hassenger,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
The pratfall was, in one producer’s memory, a small eureka moment.
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Ruby Tandoh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Peter Larsen,
Daily News,
2 Dec. 2025
Cooper gets considerable humorous mileage out of his goofy stoner role, starting with a guffaw-inducing pratfall entrance involving an exploding carton of oat milk.
—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Oct. 2025
Again, Gardner ports a movie type onto the sketch-comedy stage and turns up the volume just enough for the character to seem hilariously damaged, culminating in a Melissa McCarthy–worthy pratfall.
—
Jesse Hassenger,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
The pratfall was, in one producer’s memory, a small eureka moment.
—
Ruby Tandoh,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pratfall
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Marc Moore and his neighbors along the Long Beach Peninsula have spent night after recent night watching the water spill over makeshift sand berms and wood panels put up to try to hold the ocean’s force back.
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The pieces are machine washable — a practical necessity for unavoidable spills and stains in the kitchen — and the cloth bits are made from 100 percent cotton.
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Tumi Moshobane slipped a sneaky header into the net in the 69th minute, erasing the foul taste after a 5-1 loss at Forward Madison that AC Boise coach called the one of the worst technical performances from any of his teams.
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The Cape Verde lead lasted 23 minutes until Uruguay’s Maxi Araujo scored the equalizer on a header from close range.
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England drew with Ghana in a slip-n-slide rainy match in Boston on Tuesday.
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Alphabet saw its stock slip after two of the company’s prominent AI researchers left for rival companies OpenAI and Anthropic.
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The Falcons’ second-year running back joined defensive lineman Zach Harrison, team president and CEO Greg Beadles and several other members of the organization in an early March trip overseas with Compassion International.
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Mary returns to the Gardiners, and re-connects with a newly single Tom Hayward during a trip to the lakes — which is crashed by Ryder and Caroline Bingley.
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The leading cause of death within the category were falls, the data shows.
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The new bus stops will begin being used on Sunday and comes after an agreement was reached last fall between PRT and Waterfront management to keep bus service at the shopping center.
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This burden—which no other legal industry bears—amplifies every force in Porter’s framework, turning thin margins into existential crises and making even modest missteps fatal.
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Starmer is historically unpopular in Britain after a series of scandals and policy missteps, with critics accusing him of lacking a political vision for remedying the country’s stagnant post-Brexit economy.
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But the history of VTOL aircraft is littered with costly stumbles.
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Despite the tough start for her home team, Sam noted that Australia's early stumble shouldn't overshadow the massive growth of soccer in the United States.
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The team went on a 1-6-1 slide before the World Cup break and sits in 12th place in the 16-team league.
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Coach’s sneakers, slides, and sandals are all crafted with the same quality and attention to detail as its purses, and the Brynn Sandal is no exception.
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“Pratfall.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pratfall. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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