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Recent Examples of improvise Director Michel Gondry even prohibited Carrey from improvising any of his lines as the lovelorn Joel Barish, who undergoes a procedure to forget his relationship with Kate Winslet's Clementine Kruczynski. Brendan Le, People.com, 17 Jan. 2025 As such, the team improvised for the Oct. 17 show, setting up a riser in the middle of the amphitheater amid the seats. Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 Jan. 2025 Every moment of this was improvised by Mr. Baldoni with no discussion or consent in advance, and no intimacy coordinator present. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025 Much of the music—early jazz, ska, rocksteady, and reggae—was improvised on the spot. Heather Augustyn, SPIN, 21 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for improvise 
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Verb
  • The development — dubbed Heritage Place — is the realization of a compromise that community members, stakeholders and the city devised a few years ago to keep Kroehler mansion from demolition.
    Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025
  • But one way of doing this is an SRO, meaning the SEC and the CFTC would jointly create an SRO that would devise these standards, and that would pull in industry expertise.
    Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2025
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  • Werfel concocted a more tortuous explanation for his wife’s grotesque behavior.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Director Josh Ruben, along with screenwriters Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy, craftily concocts a sweetly sinister genre mashup, blending romantic comedy tropes with slasher movie fodder.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The future, instead, seems to belong to the teams and coaches who are willing to be a little more flexible and see their role as providing a platform on which their players might extemporize.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Friends said he was talented and could extemporize about anything.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 24 Jan. 2023

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“Improvise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/improvise. Accessed 18 Feb. 2025.

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