extemporaneous
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No one else will experience that extemporaneous moment like the woman in that particular seat.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026
Like most of his comedy, the opening riff was extemporaneous.
From Salon • Feb. 29, 2024
It is true that she often burdens her sentences with more dependent clauses than they can bear, and verbatim transcripts of her extemporaneous remarks can sometimes be hard to follow.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2023
The concept has a history stretching back to at least the First Great Awakening in 18th-century New England, when crowds of newly fervent Protestants gathered to hear vivid extemporaneous sermons by pastors like Jonathan Edwards.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023
Speros’s extemporaneous opening act was to decide which figures from popular culture we looked like: DiPaola was Bart Simpson, Chavez was Zorro, Dimmie was a soul singer from the 1970s.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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