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Recent Examples of prankster
Don’t try to be a hero, don’t try to be a prankster amongst your friends.
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Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 22 Sep. 2024
The $100 film sees the return of Michael Keaton as the ghoulish prankster, alongside Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
Such worms took on the characterization of a prankster, like the WANK (Worms Against Nuclear Killers), which plagued NASA computers with pacifist messages in 1989 and deceived users into believing their files were being deleted.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2024
However, his wife (Constance Wu) has other plans, going toe-to-toe with neighborhood pranksters to keep her investment property in pristine condition.
—Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 22 Sep. 2024
The $100 film sees the return of Michael Keaton as the ghoulish prankster, alongside Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara.
—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Sep. 2024
Such worms took on the characterization of a prankster, like the WANK (Worms Against Nuclear Killers), which plagued NASA computers with pacifist messages in 1989 and deceived users into believing their files were being deleted.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 23 Oct. 2024
However, his wife (Constance Wu) has other plans, going toe-to-toe with neighborhood pranksters to keep her investment property in pristine condition.
—Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prankster
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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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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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Orange cats have earned an online reputation for being chaotic, energetic rascals.Gayoung Lee, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
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Eventually, Sergei — now going by Kraven — begins knocking off a growing list of poachers, corporate rascals and international kingpins.David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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But what if rogue cops were paid off to help criminals with their exploits?Marco della Cava, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2025
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And so the two cats bedded down in their 30-day home in the Highland Wildlife Park, and the authorities began their methodical search for the perpetrators of the rogue lynx release.Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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However, Macy's Santa is supposed to be the real Santa, so the department store wanted to cut the famous scene where Buddy finds out about the impostor.Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 2 Dec. 2024
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Nearly 600,000 reports of impostor schemes, including romance scams, were received by FTC officials this year, with losses exceeding $2.1 billion.Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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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
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The fear of leaving without her fox was greater than the fear of missing the flight.New York Times Games, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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The Wild Robot filmmakers found their look when going over early concept art that had the island’s natural environment and its animals — foxes, bears, beavers, opossums and others — drawn in a painterly way.Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 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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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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Tartuffe, a charismatic charlatan, insinuates himself into the lives of a wealthy family, setting off a chain reaction of disruption and pandemonium.Del Mar Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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