prank
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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
The team’s coach, Rudi Garcia, wondered if the whole affair was an April Fool’s prank played in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
It’s the explosion of relief when a prank ends, often in humiliation, always with hoots and claps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
He told himself Nero was mocking him, that it was all a prank.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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
An increasingly popular use of the glasses is to record pranks on unsuspecting people.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Prime Video’s award-winning series returns with a new unwitting hero, who is hired as a temp at a hot sauce company — gentle, funny pranks ensue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 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
He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, planning pranks on the other counselors.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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
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
"It's like Indonesians have been pranked," Lucius Karus from Formappi, a non-profit parliamentary watchdog, told local media outlets.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 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
Not every trend on TikTok is as horrific or annoying as drinking borax or pranking strangers — some memes are downright heartwarming.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2024
He seemed very sincere, perhaps due to the Colonel’s reputation for pranking.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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