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ad-libbing

noun as in extemporization

Weak matches

noun as in improvisation

noun as in spontaneity

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In one project, Scott Thomas remembers a “poor unfortunate actor” who kept ad-libbing, trailing off his lines so Smith couldn’t pick up her own cue.

“People think I was always stoned or that was me as a human and I was just ad-libbing,” he says.

And Jean is somebody who there isn’t really a lot of ad-libbing.

He sang with the famed salsa and house singer La India on “Voices in My Mind” and the club singers Colonel Abrams and Jay Williams on “I’ll Be Right There,” an extended club jam that was dominated by Mr. Watford’s gospel ad-libbing.

The Fijians have always been everyone’s favorite longshots at the Rugby World Cup due to the way they play, an inventive, ad-libbing attack-from-anywhere kind of ethos.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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