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“What may seem like a harmless prank for social media is actually a crime,” the agency said in the post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

When I began leaving messages for them, one survivor wondered if the phone call was a prank.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

But the prank continued and any attempts to free the duke of his plastic hat have always been quickly thwarted with the cone replaced within days.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

When busy barman Darren Summers' phone rang and a voice told him he had won a prize he dismissed it as a prank and hung up.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026

He tried to sound composed, ironic, like a man amused at some childish prank, but his face told a different story.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Playing jokes and pranks, it needs to be amusing and not belittling, obviously.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

In fact, if we were on the eve of April Fools’ Day, not the Fourth of July, I’d guess that the few news stories about the order were pranks.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

But Riley has put in so much work of his own wowing us with pointed pranks that he’s earned the right to deliver an earnest plea.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

The catty media site Gawker noted that corners of the internet like 4Chan could be expected to respond with heinous pranks, without realizing how vile the rhetoric of regular people was about to get.

From Salon ● Feb. 16, 2026

Then he said, “You sure nobody’s been talking about it? Sometimes the kids who pull these sorts of pranks like to brag on themselves.”

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

Kido says they’ve never been on the receiving end of weird or gross trash—or even pranked.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

How were so many otherwise reasonable people pranked into venturing to an empty Brooklyn Bridge Park in the bleak midwinter as 2025 ebbed to nothing, for nothing?

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026

"These are not the shots of a number 11," added Botham, as if he was being pranked by the whole of Australia as payback for his own Ashes exploits.

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2025

One of them was Rita Skimehorn, the woman from Mascoutah, Illinois, who thought she was being pranked when Pizza Hut HR told her to pack her bags for the USSR.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

He’s also the guy who pranked my father’s office.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

He and his best pal Chris Stark, who joined Radio 1 in 2012, were known for their real life, on-air bromance and for pranking each other.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

This further fouls up Didi’s holiday, though Cliff’s pranking of Conway may mark the moment when she falls in love.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

“My friend sent me a video, and at first I thought she was pranking me,” the 20-year-old from Nashville told Slate—and not just because the concept of an “A.I. actress” is already baffling enough.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2025

Robinson is more interested in pranking us with psych-outs than sinister scares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

“I’ve gone sixty paces past the pond, and . . . I think my cousins are pranking me.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith