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
Ms Parker said she was always a joker in school and now believes that was a way of masking to blend in with others.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2025
‘Salim,’ I said, ‘if you’re a practical joker, what’s a theoretical joker?’
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Burry is just as likely to be dismissed on social media, where jokers trot out a version of a wisecrack that he predicted 20 of the last two recessions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 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
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
I was from the Bronx, after all, maybe these country jokers were intimidated.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
