prankster

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Recent Examples of prankster At the 2024 Film Awards YouTube prankster Lizwani snuck on stage as Christopher Nolan and his Oppenheimer team accepted the award for Best Film. Zac Ntim, Deadline, 15 Jan. 2025 Things were going well until two weeks ago when Dylan started spending time with some prankster friends. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024 Always the prankster, Hernández grabbed the groin of third-base coach Dino Ebel on his trot. Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024 Rock is a prankster and big gambler who thrives on taking risks. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for prankster
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Noun
  • Implications Le Grand's work on post-World War II British social policy found that perceptions of human motivations gradually transformed, with the prevailing view of the typical British citizenry morphing from knight into knave as the costs of maintaining an expensive welfare state increased.
    Sachin H. Jain, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • Alex has two choices: Linger at Union Station and see what rascals cross her path, or take up an invitation to join her British guardian angels at their home in Winnetka.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2025
  • After their car is stolen, the group of rascals must resort to some hilarious hijinks to get past the finish line.
    Kara Nesvig, Parents, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But who among Mike White’s gallery of rogue, evil gays reigns supreme?
    Samantha Allen, Them, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Here, Snow White, played by Rachel Zegler gains the courage to take back her father’s kingdom from the Evil Queen, played by Gal Gadot, with the help of seven dwarfs and a crew of rogue bandits.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Business imposter and online shopping scams were the two highest causes reported, with over 1,000 District complaints each.
    Anna Spiegel, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Thus the cashew-milk-cheese-fry lover must be an imposter.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Later Baby Shark and Pinkfong, the name of a pink fox character, ride on SeaWorld attractions.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Sightings of Bon Secour’s resident nesting sea turtles, endangered Alabama beach mice, more than 350 species of migratory birds, foxes, armadillos, and more are common.
    Jennifer Stewart Kornegay, Southern Living, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Death at the hands of charlatans is not an inspiring storyline, which means publishers and film studios studiously avoid it.
    Alan Levinovitz, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025
  • No, the danger is what those charlatans exploit, namely our vulnerability to the narrative of natural healing, the irresistible allure of conquering cancer with a simple, intuitive approach that lies entirely within our power, no chemo or surgery required.
    Alan Levinovitz, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 28 Feb. 2025

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