as in impromptu
made or done without previous thought or preparation
an unrehearsed speech of thanks
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Recent Examples of unrehearsed
Funnily enough, Alexis can’t tell you what those unforced, unrehearsed words were.
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Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
12 Dec. 2025
Sponsors who gathered in New York this week for the U.S. Soccer Summit seemed to treat Trump’s threats to deny Boston’s host-city status as so much political theater, with one company rep suggesting that a few unrehearsed remarks shouldn’t be confused with an official White House decree.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 Dec. 2025
Unlike offline reality, where spontaneous and unrehearsed human expression is not only possible but inevitable, a life online is always reminded of its own artifice.
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Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
2 Dec. 2025
For over a decade Open Group has been creating unrehearsed situations, performative films, and spatial experiments.
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Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
12 Dec. 2025
Sponsors who gathered in New York this week for the U.S. Soccer Summit seemed to treat Trump’s threats to deny Boston’s host-city status as so much political theater, with one company rep suggesting that a few unrehearsed remarks shouldn’t be confused with an official White House decree.
—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 Dec. 2025
Unlike offline reality, where spontaneous and unrehearsed human expression is not only possible but inevitable, a life online is always reminded of its own artifice.
—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
2 Dec. 2025
For over a decade Open Group has been creating unrehearsed situations, performative films, and spatial experiments.
—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrehearsed
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Videos of every speech, impromptu press conference and gaff circulate on social media.
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The impromptu match, published on X June 20, formed part of NASA's push to explain how space relates to soccer.
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Across La Guaira, the coastal state hardest-hit by the disaster, and in parts of Caracas, thousands of residents are spending nights outdoors in plazas, parks, sports courts and improvised encampments, sleeping on mattresses, blankets and folding chairs.
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Eventually, the rewrite and actors workshop rehearsal combined — a two-week period in which Jones, McCormick, Wilde, Rogen, Cruz, and Norton acted out, improvised scenes, and, most importantly, talked about characters.
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At the same time, Wilde wanted an improvisational rehearsal process in which the actors could discover and breathe life into the characters.
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The wild card is Chicago alto saxophonist Lenard Simpson, a prodigious young player known for his impassioned improvisational flights.
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“Unrehearsed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrehearsed. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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