as in to devise
to perform, make, or do without preparation
since the award was a complete surprise, I improvised an acceptance speech
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Recent Examples of improvise
The songs will be complicated and partly improvised.
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Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
After a sequence of chasing Herro around screens, Anunoby chose to improvise.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
The practice of improvisation stress-tests character, and character is needed to effectively improvise as Corey Crossan, Cassie Ellis and I describe in Character and Improvisation: A Recursive Relationship.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
With police on the way, Brandy improvises a save for Clara, and grabs the gun in preparation to take responsibility.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
After a sequence of chasing Herro around screens, Anunoby chose to improvise.
—Fred Katz, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2025
The practice of improvisation stress-tests character, and character is needed to effectively improvise as Corey Crossan, Cassie Ellis and I describe in Character and Improvisation: A Recursive Relationship.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
With police on the way, Brandy improvises a save for Clara, and grabs the gun in preparation to take responsibility.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for improvise
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The authors devised a set of experiments to scientifically investigate the phase behavior of water, starch, and cheese mixed together in various concentrations and at different temperatures.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 Apr. 2025
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Sergio Mercado Design For a project in Palm Beach, Florida, Sergio Mercado Design devised a minimalist space, allowing for the colorful artwork to take center stage.—
Elizabeth Stamp,
Architectural Digest,
29 Apr. 2025
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Epitomizing what seems an unsustainable recent trend, a second straight 2-0 win over Houston was concocted by way of their third sacrifice fly in two days and a Vinnie Pasquantino home run among their grand total of three hits.—
Vahe Gregorian,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2025
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The Penzance Musical, an exquisitely funny, meticulously concocted theatrical pavlova—the 1879 operetta The Pirates of Penzance by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan—has been whacked with a mallet.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
25 Apr. 2025
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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
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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 2 May. 2025.
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