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Origin of prankish
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Angela Balogh Calin’s costumes prepare the way for Ionesco’s prankish jokes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
Workplaces, theater marquees, pillows, municipal services: everything starts to absorb their prankish tendencies until the ending sequence combines it all into a kind of over-the-top, technicolor uneasiness.
From Salon • Oct. 6, 2023
Missives like Meredith’s clarify the latent danger in some of the riot’s more prankish elements.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2021
In a lot of ways, the story of Gabriel Whaley mirrors the story of MSCHF: both are prankish outsiders.
From The Verge • Jul. 27, 2020
But there was nothing prankish about ruining the sneakers.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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