tricksters

plural of trickster

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of tricksters Floods, tricksters, battles with monsters, creation and apocalypse—sometimes the resemblances are uncanny. Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025 Many of the short form videos are skits featuring cartoonish depictions of Putin, Khamenei and Kim Jong Un posing as tricksters that prank, imprison or kill Trump and Netanyahu. Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 In addition to taste testing at the wine and beer tents, see live performances by musical artists, polka dancers and BMX tricksters. Caroline Ritzie, The Enquirer, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tricksters
Noun
  • No one cheats like college football.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Her character also has a fake handicapped license plate and cheats at golf.
    Brie Stimson , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Remove their obsessions, and the two magicians have little personality.
    Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Entertaining performance Performers can run the gamut from cultural dancers celebrating a couple’s heritage to magicians to even a specialized singer.
    Metro Creative Services, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Rock the Ocean Foundation is a conservation nonprofit whose core work protects sea turtles, marine mammals, coral reefs, sharks, and marine habitats.
    Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Developing fishing gear that’s practical to use but less harmful to not only sea turtles, but other threatened species sharks, is one way to address this issue.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 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
  • Meanwhile, posing as the original customer, the swindlers cancelled the order to get a refund.
    Thomas Brewster, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025

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“Tricksters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tricksters. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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