joker
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After audience members have chosen cards from a pack, he turns each card into a joker, which he uses to signify “lack of freedom.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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
The wild-card series is a joker compared to the waiting full house.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
“Everybody just figured some joker had found the body and moved it,” Dad said.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
American mahjong, nationalized by Jewish women, adds eight jokers, an elaborate tile-trading process called “the Charleston” and a dizzying card that changes annually and lists 70-odd winning lines—which can produce more than 1,000 combinations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
Most of these jokers she interviews on the field, whether they shoot her straight, or give her the runaround, appreciate the inherent warmness she’s shown over the years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
They are often held when family and friends gather, get animated and talk smack amid a spades or bid whist card game where jokers and deuces are always wild.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2024
He has hairy dark arms with tattoos of jokers, swords, bulldogs, and pirate ships.
From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
