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prankster

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Recent Examples of prankster At a news conference toward the end of Blatter’s reign, a prankster showered him with banknotes. — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026 Fraser is also known as a prankster. — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 27 May 2026 Curated by Laura Young of The Future Perfect and the aesthetic pranksters of DUDD HAUS, this exhibition features the best of some 400 submissions. — Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 23 May 2026 Vitalii Sediuk, an infamous serial prankster known for targeting major celebrity events, attempted to crash the gala wearing nothing but a pink mankini and a gold chain. — Alyssa Modos, PEOPLE, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for prankster

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Cody Johnson earned his first ACM entertainer of the year award.

— Paul Grein, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2026
Obrochta’s life as an entertainer dates back to his days as an IT teacher at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills.

— Jim Dudlicek, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2026

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Even though the Feeneys have gotten more competitive under the junior Michel’s management, the rascal-on-the-field ethos of the original team still prevails.

— Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
Not even the curmudgeonly Melvin can bring himself to harm the little rascal.

— Camille Perri, PEOPLE, 10 June 2026

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Yet as a child he was considered more clever than cutup.

— Adam Moss, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
Such systems also house analytics programming, sections where mock drafts are monitored to gauge external chatter about players, video libraries of film cutups, charts with testing results and more advanced metrics such as play speed.

— Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026

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Its sophisticated but never stuffy—for proof, take a peek at artist Becca Barnet’s playful diorama of taxidermy foxes and butterflies in the concierge’s nook.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
Looking through small microscopes implanted in the mice’s heads, Patel’s team zoomed in on a particular subset of brain cells, called somatostatin neurons, as the animals reacted to the fox urine scent.

— Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

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