pranks
Example Sentences
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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
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
Years of insults and diss tracks and pranks and social media posts have followed, with small islands of peace floating by from time to time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
Then gradually, people got bored and the pranks became more half-hearted, until one day it struck me there hadn’t been any for over a week.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
