jackanapes

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Noun
  • Right now, the rascal in him slumbers, briefly glimpsed now and again behind dark shades.
    Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.
    Andrew Walsh, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • More, the coaches of the last three title-winning teams (Florida’s Todd Golden and Hurley) all come from the current crop of whippersnappers, as do the leaders of each 1-seed in this tourney.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Mills gives off the disarming sense of a secure soul undeterred by whippersnappers who toss around fancy words such as gerontocracy.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Wade now will join the renegade row of coaches at LSU, which also employs football rapscallion Lane Kiffin and women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Snoop Dogg, the rap rapscallion who puts the OG in Olympic Games, plopped down on a couch in the NBC green room and muted the TV.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Cala Gaetano is the most breathtaking of all, both in awe and anxiety, where slippery steps without any barriers bring you to a secluded cove speckled with urchins.
    Kristina Kasparian, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Sea urchin also comes as nigiri for $12, and sashimi for $24.
    Ella Gonzales March 13, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This could provide some indication of when AI models were essentially going rogue.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026
  • In the movie, which was progressive for its time, the trans character attempts suicide after being subjected to emotional and physical abuse by the manipulative Sonny, who tries to make amends by going rogue and stealing money for their surgery.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • And in other happy animal news, Punch the monkey has a new best friend.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Villas are set among 475 acres of pristine golf courses and land-before-time-style vegetation inhabited by the property’s namesake monkeys.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • For its 310 students and more than 80 children from infants to toddlers, Greenland represents a second chance at school that is free from stigma and, experts say, a model for how young mothers can be reintegrated into education.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • After birth, human beings undergo infant and toddler development, moving on to child development before progressing to puberty and adolescence on the way to adulthood.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The second was more bizarre: that some nasty imp in my psyche might decide that jumping was a good idea.
    Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Mykal-Michelle Harris from Raven’s Home guest-stars as Ruby, a mischievous moon imp who tricks Vee.
    Allison McClain Merrill, Parents, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Jackanapes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jackanapes. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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