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So she was well outside of her comfort zone on this May afternoon when she had to improvise a pitch for a made-up, nonsensical product called a “hammer humidifier.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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

The nationwide Canvas outage that disrupted colleges and universities during finals week forced campuses across the country to improvise as faculty and students suddenly lost access to exams, assignments, grades and other course materials.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

Smartphones are not meant to be out in UK classrooms either, but with no national rules on where they should be the rest of the day, schools and teachers are left to improvise.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

I can’t just improvise where Mama is concerned.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026

TJ Lateef improvises and fires 45-yard TD pass to Tyler Hennessy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024

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

“Melvin was in the gifted-and-talented program at his old school,” my mom quickly improvises.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

Helicopters carrying aid have landed at the improvised hospital and those who lost their homes during the quake are being provided with food, water and clothes.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

And when game 3 didn’t work out, the last two lines were quickly improvised: “The Pope’s on our side / Knicks in Five.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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

Yet the idea of an improvised solo as a story to tell, and of the melody as the vehicle for that story, was a constant in his music.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

I tugged at Otto’s ear and he, in response to the improvised game, swung his hand in the air, making a random Z. Bouain froze.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 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

“I said, ‘I’m just going to be an improvising partner with you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026

For example, because improvising music is far more complex than imitating basic patterns, the latter is required in order to perform the former.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin