joker
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After audience members have chosen cards from a pack, he turns each card into a joker, which he uses to signify “lack of freedom.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Paul Coutts, a ball playing midfielder and joker of Wilder's dressing room described Wright as an "unassuming lad" with a "dry sense of humour".
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Michael Jackson’s estate could’ve existed in this gray area forevermore, letting his memory hover somewhere between genius and joker.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2026
The joker in the global fixed-income deck is the possibility that the Fed could reverse a dovish trajectory to raise rates again in response to war-related inflationary pressures, Al-Hussainy adds.
From Barron's ● Apr. 20, 2026
Skeet was an extrovert, a goofball, a practical joker.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
American mahjong, nationalized by Jewish women, adds eight jokers, an elaborate tile-trading process called “the Charleston” and a dizzying card that changes annually and lists 70-odd winning lines—which can produce more than 1,000 combinations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The 28-year-old, who is one of the jokers of the squad, is also an experienced Sevens player and represented Team GB at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2025
Why did internet jokers think to transform Vance into a giant baby?
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2025
Most of these jokers she interviews on the field, whether they shoot her straight, or give her the runaround, appreciate the inherent warmness she’s shown over the years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
Like practical jokers, chairs offered themselves and then pulled away at the last moment.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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