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as in imposter
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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prankster
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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
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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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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
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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
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Saturday's talks in Rome between the Trump administration and the Islamic Republic of Iran over the rogue regime’s failure to dismantle its illicit nuclear weapons program have raised pressing questions about whether Tehran will adhere to a new deal.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Sadly, for now, Murkowski is one of vanishingly few Republican politicians with the guts to speak up against the party’s rogue president — a brave, but lonely, voice in the wilderness.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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These kinds of supportive environments can reduce impostor feelings and create space for growth.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
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Once hired, the impostor can install malware to demand ransom from a company, or steal its customer data, trade secrets or funds, according to Balasubramaniyan.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 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
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The island is home to over 260 bird species, as well as other animals like alligators and foxes.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
17 Apr. 2025
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The foxes, however, eat the hares and thus limit their population.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2025
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But, of course, seeing one of our best musical comediennes so deliciously live out the maxim that all is vanity is especially a treat for Hilty heads who’ve longed to see her in a Broadway production that lives up to the title of her former TV series.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
19 Apr. 2025
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On the last day of the season, when the apprentices had been winnowed from 16 to two, then-emcee Donald Trump fired Annie on national television in favor of the comedienne Joan Rivers.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2025
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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
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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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“Prankster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prankster. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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