joker
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Against Portugal in the previous round, 30-year-old midfielder Mikel Merino had proven himself as the joker in La Roja’s pack by scoring the winner in stoppage time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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
The wild-card series is a joker compared to the waiting full house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
She remembered her mother, dressed in a paper crown and red velvet cloak, blowing kisses across the flames to her father, dressed as a joker with gold and silver baubles hanging from his cap.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
Mr. Lee describes the fast fellowship formed among the rogues’ gallery of campers—the athletes, the jokers, the mischief-makers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Because I know you're one of the jokers in the dressing room as well.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
Why did internet jokers think to transform Vance into a giant baby?
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2025
Each “Housewives” series is a rickety house of cards, just waiting for a dramatic gust of wind to implode its structure so it can be rebuilt with the queens and jokers in a different place.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025
"Well, well, well, my man Muhammad Ali is in the house! Heard you taking jokers down for the count!" he said, but not smiling or laughing, or showing any signs of it being a joke.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
