prank

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

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 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

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

For “Four Seasons” star Kerri Kenney-Silver, comedy began as a classroom prank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

“You made the call? Huh? You know it’s illegal to prank call 911, right? Lemme see if I can get one of the cops to come and have a word with you.”

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

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

YouTuber Niko Omilana, known for his pranks and efforts to stand in local elections, secured the best media personality prize.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

The 28-year-old, known for his pranks and efforts to stand in local elections, manages NDL FC, based off his brand the Niko Defence League.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

The good memories I have of these men—of helpless laughter, of bets won and pranks hatched— they are stolen away.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

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

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

Eliava, in contrast, was a mischievous charmer who pranked his friends, once dressing as a woman to flirt with d’Hérelle at a dinner party, and kept sketchy notes in the lab.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024

The singer achieved internet notoriety through the Rickrolling meme, in which users are pranked when they click on an unrelated link, only to be redirected to his famous song Never Gonna Give You Up.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023

She’s in and out handling principal stuff: a parent protesting her daughter’s F; a pranked substitute teacher crying; a broken window.

From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander

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

And he told me, and I have to say, Alaska left us with the crown jewel of pranks, the Mona Lisa of high-school hilarity, the culmination of generations of Culver Creek pranking.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green