prankster
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Around that time, an office prankster briefly erected a life-size cardboard cutout of imprisoned crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried—a joke partly about how similar Coplan, a fellow crypto billionaire, is in appearance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
The possibility that it was a prankster on the radio may not be 0%.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 11, 2026
With that in mind, the shadow cockroach “Angels” projects into your kitchen may be just a bit of Peter Pan-esque play from an inveterate digital prankster.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
Eugene Brown of Menifee is known as a prankster.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
His expression was as gruff as ever, but he still had one pink rubber band stuck in his hair from the prankster dwarfs in Bologna.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Naive, blundering hobbyists and reckless pranksters can also veer into restricted airspace, setting off alarms and potentially shutting down airport traffic.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
But like generations of pilgrims, dropouts, and merry pranksters before him, what he discovered on that journey was his mission.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
In recent years, police have been also cracking down on pranksters who have committed "sushi terrorism" in sushi conveyor belt restaurants, such as licking communal soy sauce bottles and squashing sushi meant for diners.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
“We are the number one pranksters in the world. We love pranks, but once it starts damaging things and costing people money. It’s not funny. There’s a fine line,” the Sultan said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
Officer Delinko wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he was beginning to suspect that this wasn’t the random work of juvenile pranksters.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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