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“Juiced,” a “reality TV” prank show built around O.J.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Moreno said it was a prank pulled by an intern, a story the former intern confirmed.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026

“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

The prank came after midfielder Jordan Henderson suffered a freak injury as he fell while jumping over the advertising hoardings following the match.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

Five: Twenty years ago, as the senior prank, someone had let the biology teacher’s pet python loose.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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

Anticipation for their second match against Morocco on Friday is building and the conical pranks are perhaps an indication of high spirits.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 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

So Chip became the Colonel—the military-style planner of their pranks, and Alaska was ever Alaska, the larger-than-life creative force behind them.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

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

They previously claimed to have pranked the likes of Elton John, the president of Poland Andrzej Duda, the head of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 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

In one scene it lingers for what struck me as an inexplicably, even discomfitingly long time on the handsome face of a young sociopath pranking a pair of little kids with small stones.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

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

To be honest, considering the time we spend pranking and goofing, we don’t spend that much time laughing.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman