extemporizing

verb

present participle of extemporize
as in devising
to perform, make, or do without preparation a good talk show host has to be able to extemporize the interviews when things don't go as planned

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for extemporizing
  1. devising
  2. improvising
  3. concocting
  4. faking
Verb
  • Ten years on, after devising the victorious Trojan Horse gambit, Ulysses attempts to return to Ithaca and the pining Penelope, whose palace has been overrun with scheming suitors seeking her hand.
    — Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2026
  • Feynman was a graduate student there at the time and threw himself into the debate with gusto, even devising an experiment in the cyclotron laboratory to test his hypothesis.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
Definition of devising
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  • The afternoon loosens into tapas at Tapeo and whatever the pastry chefs are improvising that week at Bubó.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026
  • But the alternative is to leave frontline clinicians improvising when authenticity is in doubt.
    — Henry Bair, STAT, 14 July 2026
Definition of improvising
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  • And she’s spent a decade scaling her brand into an industry disrupter; Ellsworth began concocting prebiotic drinks in 2015, founding her business just one year later.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 11 May 2026
  • According to the report, workers illegally pocketed between $20,000 and more than $41,000 in Paycheck Protection Program loans from a massive federal COVID-19 pandemic relief effort – some by concocting companies that didn't exist to pocket federal assistance funds.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
Definition of concocting
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  • By stop-starting Gvardiol — a trick that lulls defenders into a false sense of security — and then faking to go one way and then the other, Messi found space where there seemed to be none and set up Julian Alvarez for Argentina’s third goal.
    — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 10 July 2026
  • More to the point, the quarterly reports reflect the highest-quality, detailed information, the information the SEC requires executives to disclose on pain of facing a civil lawsuit from the agency or even criminal liability for faking data.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
Definition of faking
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“Extemporizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/extemporizing. Accessed 19 Jul. 2026.

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