improvise

With no operating table built for the python's size, keepers and vets said they had to improvise by connecting two operating tables together.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

If you like quarterbacks who improvise, Tanner is your guy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Watch the export miracle turn into a pumpkin or improvise.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 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

The staggering fact is that Bach could improvise fugues like this at the keyboard, and often did.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

But when Cole solos and improvises, it’s more often in single notes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

An octet of guest artists improvises in certain passages embedded within the score but also plays written-out music with the rest of the orchestra.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

Starzinski, a 15-year veteran at the Upright Citizens Brigade, improvises jokes through a megaphone and eggs on the cars to keep honking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023

Gilles improvises; not knowing a lick of Persian, he invents words, eventually using the names of prisoners kept in a logbook as mnemonic devices to develop his fictional tongue.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

He sings and improvises his own poems while he plays.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

It was improvised, deeply untraditional and exactly the kind of stuffing I wanted to eat again.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Mr. Threadgill, who plays alto saxophone and flute and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, first assembled this band 25 years ago to further a compositional strategy that is singular and yet invites improvised collaboration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

For Newcastle's second, Sean Steur's corner was headed down by fellow substitute Nick Woltemade and Wissa improvised with a clever overhead kick to double his side's lead.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

A new study led by researchers at the University of Bologna suggests that the markings were far more organized than simple scratches or improvised decorations.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

Attempting to swim the numbingly cold torrent or even to paddle some sort of improvised raft across seemed too risky to consider.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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

Israeli soldiers in Lebanon said that units were scrambling and were now improvising solutions such as covering military equipment and outposts with nets to trap the drones, a method Ukraine has long relied on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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

He was everywhere at once, pushing, pulling, sawing, hammering, improvising, jollying everyone along with comradely exhortations and giving out from every fold of his body what seemed an inexhaustible supply of acrid-smelling sweat.

From "1984" by George Orwell