as in improvised
to perform, make, or do without preparation
had to ad-lib constructing a piñata because she'd never actually seen it being done
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Rivilis also coaxes confident, naturalistic performances from her non-professional cast, who largely improvised their dialogue, making this a good fit for festivals with young audiences.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 May 2026 -
The decision to restrict exports of minerals critical to defense and clean energy wasn’t improvised.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
20 May 2026
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With the trend away from toxic chemical control of plant pests and diseases, treatment formulas concocted from benign household products are on the rise.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
28 May 2026
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Their fragrances were always concocted around a storyline.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
20 May 2026
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For this, Merighi found two Italian academics, Francesco Bof and Sergio Venturini, who devised a system to go from the events on the pitch to a final score for each player at the end of every game.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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The commonly mistaken base assumption is that the greatest minds that have devised AI and consumed so much money doing so must certainly know every iota of how AI works.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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“Ad-libbed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ad-libbed. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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