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Recent Examples of prankster
Bringing his Rolling Thunder Revue tour to small stages across the nation, Dylan and his band of merry pranksters (Allen Ginsberg, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez) played music… and so much more.
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Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2025
With a 10-1 fight record, mostly against mixed martial artists and other pro-boxing newcomers under his belt, Paul, a former child star and YouTube prankster who began his boxing career in 2018, does not lack confidence — or showmanship.
—Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2024
While Margera was central to the show’s core crew of merry pranksters, he was cut loose from Jackass 4 after a drug test returned positive.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
Rock is a prankster and big gambler who thrives on taking risks.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2025
With a 10-1 fight record, mostly against mixed martial artists and other pro-boxing newcomers under his belt, Paul, a former child star and YouTube prankster who began his boxing career in 2018, does not lack confidence — or showmanship.
—Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 18 Nov. 2024
While Margera was central to the show’s core crew of merry pranksters, he was cut loose from Jackass 4 after a drug test returned positive.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
Rock is a prankster and big gambler who thrives on taking risks.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prankster
Noun
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The modern health insurer is regarded as either a knave or a pawn and is seldom regarded as a knight.—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes,
20 Dec. 2024
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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
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With their heavy bodies, the rascals had ridden down the oak trees to crop the luscious acorns from the tree tips.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
13 Feb. 2025
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Till then, the always-in-hot-water antics of CIA attorney/reluctant spy Owen Hendricks (Centineo) keep us engaged and curious over how the troublemaking rascal is going to get out of another mess he’s made.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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And, of course, look for those with an axe to grind—from extremist groups to rogue states and struggling superpowers—to capitalize on the global lack of leadership to make gains.—
Maha Hosain Aziz,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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The plan would also initiate the creation of an Economic Security Cooperation Board, a new institution with membership open to all countries except rogue states such as Iran, North Korea, Russia, and of course China.—
Eyck Freymann,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Jan. 2025
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In Rankin’s short, Rankin himself plays an impostor posing as the not-so-famous Winnipeg filmmaker Matthew Rankin.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Feb. 2025
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After Elon Musk purchased Twitter and swiftly removed all content moderation, a substantial exodus flowed to weak impostors like BlueSky, Threads, and Mastodon.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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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
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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
Noun
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In the last few years, perhaps after an adaptive mutation, bird flu has jumped to a wide number of mammal species, including seals, bears, skunks, foxes, cougars, bobcats, dolphins and even a polar bear.—
Karen Weintraub,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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The singer and actress selected a plunging LaPointe gown from the label’s pre-fall 2025 collection, layering on a fox fur coat.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
2 Feb. 2025
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This year’s Critics Choice Awards will be hosted by comedienne/TV personality Chelsea Handler, TVLine has confirmed.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
8 Jan. 2025
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The comedienne wore her brunette tresses in a braided half-updo, while her makeup consisted of a smokey eye, rosy blush and a glossy nude lip.—
Hannah Malach,
WWD,
3 Sep. 2019
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One who comes to her full power when she is exiled by a charlatan, by a cruel leader.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
26 Nov. 2024
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The good, sincere members would flourish and the charlatans, the folks who over-promise to their constituents, would not.—
Gary Franks,
Boston Herald,
20 Jan. 2024
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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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