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Recent Examples of prankster
Always the prankster, Hernández grabbed the groin of third-base coach Dino Ebel on his trot.
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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
Get ready for a night of holiday mischief with everyone's favorite Christmas prankster — and without the booby traps.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2024
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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
Get ready for a night of holiday mischief with everyone's favorite Christmas prankster — and without the booby traps.
—Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 9 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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The disease causes the immune system to go rogue in a way that can strike virtually any organ in the body, but when and where is maddeningly elusive.Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
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Major wars are raging on multiple continents, with adversaries moving closer together and key allies seemingly going rogue.Dave Lawler, Axios, 31 Oct. 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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The only people who never feel like impostors are the real impostors.Melody Wilding, Forbes, 30 Oct. 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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Joe Walsh gonna Joe Walsh Rock and roll has no shortage of cutups and characters in its ranks, but few are as divinely silly as Joe Walsh.Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2024
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The most placid foxes were selected to breed the next generation.Lee Alan Dugatkin, Scientific American, 24 Oct. 2024
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The county also confirmed the disease in eight skunks, two raccoons, two foxes and a dog, who also bit a person.Brooke Park, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Oct. 2024
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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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After winning her first-ever Primetime Emmy Award for playing Jeffrey Dahmer whistleblower Glenda Cleveland in Netflix's Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, the longtime sitcom comedienne reteams with Ryan Murphy for Grotesquerie.Nick Romano, EW.com, 6 Sep. 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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What’s interesting about it is that in the book, the Dragon Queen is very obviously a con woman and a charlatan right away, and she was based on someone that’s real.Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024
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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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