improvise

This season is less about surviving on a student budget and more about helping home cooks waste less, improvise more and look at what’s already in the fridge or pantry with confidence.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

It operates within a basic framework, but unlike more rigid European dances, it leaves room to improvise, innovate and take risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Changing the kit design is not the only way they have had to adapt, with fans in Haiti having to improvise to even be able to watch the matches.

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026

"When I play and I improvise, I don't think, because music comes from the subconscious, someplace else," Rollins told news site The Root.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

At a game like this, a gifted human player could always triumph over the game’s AI, because software couldn’t improvise.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

“But she’s not a scat singer. She improvises more in the technique of the Baroque period, expanding and contracting phrases or adding trills that deviate from the melody.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Performed in pairs, it is led by the first and most prominent pair which improvises various figures, such as raising joined hands to form bridges under which other dancers can pass.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

It’s also a subtler homage than running a tornado through Kansas in black-and-white: Not until Wayne improvises a story for Scotty around “Dorothy” and rainbows does the connection become blazingly apparent.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

She improvises her way through what she refuses to regard as a disastrous life, walks around rules that make no sense to her, and steamrolls her way over the objections of lesser mortals.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2023

Laura Keene improvises a line that refers to Lincoln, making the audience turn toward the side of the theater in order to witness his appearance.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

Her other son was saved from flying glass by an improvised wooden barrier by his bed; he escaped with only minor cuts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

"When an innovation takes such deep root in the lives of children, we cannot make an improvised response," France's high commissioner for children Sarah El Hairy said Monday.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

It can be played without equipment and with an improvised ball, so long as you have others to play with.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

And because I had already used my good stock earlier in the week for pastina, I improvised with bouillon cubes dissolved in hot water and zhushed up with a little white miso and garlic powder.

From Salon ● May 12, 2026

After they had wandered off, I improvised a broom from dried stems and tidied up, sweeping away the embers.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

He sometimes rapped his jokes, thrived at improvising and roasted celebrities with sharp punches, leaving them in splits.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

The crew found "a harmony" like "dancing together", taking no special direction and improvising a lot.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

He liked to play loudly, for many hours at a time, improvising ceaseless and whipsawing sagas of frenetic melodies and emphatic blaring and screeching—it was a whole lot of sound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Greek yogurt is one of the few ingredients that has matched my energy in the kitchen: constantly improvising, making it work with what I got, and never letting things go to waste.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

I’m not really sure what the Old Man House looked like in real life, but I’m improvising.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day