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ad-lib

[ad lib, ad] / æd ˈlɪb, ˈæd /






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It was almost like a comedy ad lib session.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023

"I've realised that usually I like to ad lib but you can't ad lib a script because your fellow actor doesn't know when you're going to stop talking."

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2023

Sure enough, after three months, the mice who ate ad lib were stricken with obesity, diabetes, liver disease, and a host of other ugly conditions.

From Salon • Oct. 9, 2022

We shoot six episodes a day and they just fly along because it’s all ad lib.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2021

Dad had a good sense of theater, and he’d try to time this apparent ad lib so that it would coincide with the change in traffic.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey




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