as in impromptu
made or done without previous thought or preparation
caught red-handed, the would-be embezzler proceeded to give some extemporary and not very convincing explanations for her actions
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Adjective
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Upon arrival, young guests are treated to a slime smoothie, setting the stage for Nickelodeon character meet-and-greets and impromptu dance parties.—
Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025 -
McCurry says that the playlist actually came about from an impromptu conversation between a YouTube Music executive and one of Delta’s flight attendants.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Gebhardt showed his improvisational skills on a pair of first-half errant PAT conversions, running for one two-pointer and passing for another.—
Mike Waters,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Sep. 2025
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Reparto is rooted in timba, a classic Cuban sound that exploded in the Nineties and fuses Cuban son, salsa, funk, Afro-Cuban folkloric music, and jazz into an improvisational hybrid.—
Ana González Vilá,
Rolling Stone,
25 Sep. 2025
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Two months later, the group launched more than two dozen attacks across northeastern Syria, relying on a combination of guerrilla tactics, including small arms fire, ambushes, assassinations, and improvised explosive devices targeting military checkpoints and government vehicles.—
Caroline Rose,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Sep. 2025
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The researchers believe this error was not from its knowledge base but was an improvised guess based on their prior conversation about the square’s diagonal.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Extemporary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extemporary. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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