improvise
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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
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
Theatergoers have to improvise their own interpretive strategies as the play shifts and shifts again.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 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
The computer program wasn’t built to handle something like this, so Artemis had to improvise.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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