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improvise

[im-pruh-vahyz] / ˈɪm prəˌvaɪz /


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This season, he’s healthy, wiser and ready to improvise even more to take advantage of his running and passing skills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Watch the export miracle turn into a pumpkin or improvise.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

As producer he helps the children prepare for interviews and research their guests, but encourages them to improvise and follow the direction of an interview rather than sticking to a set script.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 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

But we were going to have to improvise.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan

Moore begins with a whisper and builds to a roar as Mona improvises a manic rant that involves rats and the plague.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

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

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

From Batman masks to offline maps, young Indian protesters have responded to one of New Delhi's toughest security crackdowns with improvised tactics designed to evade surveillance and keep demonstrations alive.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

By the time he created “Curb,” melding intricately intersecting tales of quotidian annoyances with improvised dialogue, Mr. David was firmly in charge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

And props are improvised so that pool noodles are used for jousting and an earbud case serves as an engagement ring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

He improvised an altar in the square and on Sunday he went through the town with a small bell, as in the days of insomnia, calling people to an open-air mass.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Though the scene has Mona improvising, it was performed as written, down to every last pause.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Young men, some barefoot, dart around in the sand under the guidance of a volunteer coach improvising drills amid the shouts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 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

Elite teams managed by him maintain an ideal combination of intelligence within structure, and he has players capable of improvising solutions when patterns break down.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

A small jazz combo with a bass, a piano, and a drum set providing the "rhythm" background for a trumpet improvising a solo.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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