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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

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

Todd was a joker, and he’d had a run-in or two with the law, so even in the back of a military van he seemed amused.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

She was seen as one of the jokers of the group, usually found stood near best friend Rachel Daly or midway through a TikTok dance with Mary Earps.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 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