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Recent Examples of unscripted
After smearing Tylenol, the president's unscripted remarks quickly veered into an incoherent rant linking vaccines to autism as well.
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ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Survivor is closing in on its 50th season, a milestone that few shows (scripted or unscripted) ever reach.
—Terry Terrones, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
The move into unscripted reflects broader audience trends, particularly among Gen Z and millennial viewers driving consumption of Korean content across India.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Younger generations are reportedly less likely to socialize in person and less likely to enjoy, let alone voluntarily engage in, unscripted, spontaneous conversation.
—Linda-Marie Barrett
september 10, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
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ArsTechnica, 24 Sep. 2025
Survivor is closing in on its 50th season, a milestone that few shows (scripted or unscripted) ever reach.
—Terry Terrones, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
The move into unscripted reflects broader audience trends, particularly among Gen Z and millennial viewers driving consumption of Korean content across India.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
Younger generations are reportedly less likely to socialize in person and less likely to enjoy, let alone voluntarily engage in, unscripted, spontaneous conversation.
—Linda-Marie Barrett
september 10, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unscripted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unscripted
Adjective
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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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But then, flying toward the conclusion of Act I, Matthew finds that he, too, is being pulled down by unrehearsed emotion.—
Han Ong,
New Yorker,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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All students must complete an impromptu essay, which involves reading a short text and responding to a question about it within a two-hour time limit.—
Rory Linnane,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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In public, Mark Kerr speaks amiably about his trainer turned rival and even takes him along for a rowdy impromptu meet-and-greet, but the lack of friction comes off less as a sign of his unflappability than of Safdie’s indifference to probing a friendship beyond buddy-comedy depth.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The participants who fare best seem to be familiar with the conventions of interscholastic debate, spouting off statistics and logic puzzles with the alacrity of an extemporaneous-speaking champion.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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As protesters dispersed, some started an extemporaneous cumbia dance party in a nearby park.—
Alex Driggars,
Austin American Statesman,
8 July 2025
Adjective
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The film, shot in the sort of seemingly improvisational, realistic style championed by John Cassavetes, may be too raw for mainstream consumption, but deservingly snagged the festival’s award for Best First Feature.—
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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By comparison, campaign two felt more scattered and improvisational (befitting a D&D game).—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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Weekday dinners, spontaneous hikes and running downhill with their dogs are all part of the routine.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Our results suggest that children are actually capable of spontaneous logical strategy discovery much earlier when circumstances require it.—
Celeste Kidd,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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Shutdowns can delay contracts, squeeze liquidity, and reveal how unprepared many companies are to absorb shocks, Gainer said.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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The challenges schools face While there is no federal data on how many public schools have air conditioning, many schools were built for cooler temperatures, and are unprepared for how our changing climate is making extreme heat days stretch further into the fall.—
Simmone Shah,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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The couple decided to make a spur-of-the-moment decision to skip Osaka altogether.—
Chris Dong,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Sep. 2025
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According to a patron who posted on social media, one of them fulfilled an unusual spur-of-the-moment request by designing a drink to match her attire and her mood.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Unscripted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unscripted. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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