prank
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A sleazebag producer created a prank show called “Juiced” that starred O.J.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
When I began leaving messages for them, one survivor wondered if the phone call was a prank.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
Its soccer coach thought the whole thing was a prank.
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
Runs up thousand-dollar phone bills making prank calls to the Middle East.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
Maybe this was one of Dad’s pranks, I thought.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
The voice of the colleague who pranked her came back into her headphones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The iconic TV character, created for the BBC's former Noel's House Party show in the 1990s, tricked and pranked celebrities, destroyed studio sets and only spoke by screeching his name.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
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
Maybe they hadn’t pranked him first thing in the morning like most days.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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
The then 25-year-old actor was pranking a 15-year-old Hilary Duff.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2023
He seemed very sincere, perhaps due to the Colonel’s reputation for pranking.
From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green
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