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Watch the export miracle turn into a pumpkin or improvise.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

This season is less about surviving on a student budget and more about helping home cooks waste less, improvise more and look at what’s already in the fridge or pantry with confidence.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

As producer he helps the children prepare for interviews and research their guests, but encourages them to improvise and follow the direction of an interview rather than sticking to a set script.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

It operates within a basic framework, but unlike more rigid European dances, it leaves room to improvise, innovate and take risks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Since there is no restriction tying the singer to a “fixed” notation, children are free to just imitate or to explore, improvise and play with the sound.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

“But she’s not a scat singer. She improvises more in the technique of the Baroque period, expanding and contracting phrases or adding trills that deviate from the melody.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

TJ Lateef improvises and fires 45-yard TD pass to Tyler Hennessy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024

Performed in pairs, it is led by the first and most prominent pair which improvises various figures, such as raising joined hands to form bridges under which other dancers can pass.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 19, 2024

In one song, “Are You Blue,” O’Hara improvises with the band, her otherworldly soprano a contrast to the splintery score.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

Laura Keene improvises a line that refers to Lincoln, making the audience turn toward the side of the theater in order to witness his appearance.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

People across Kent, Surrey and Sussex brought out solar glasses, improvised pinhole cameras and kitchen colanders to watch the celestial event.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

A new study led by researchers at the University of Bologna suggests that the markings were far more organized than simple scratches or improvised decorations.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

On a street in Central Havana, Mayumis Nunez wakes up on an improvised bed in front of the building where she lived for years.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

He said he did not see a handle and compared its appearance to an improvised prison shank.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Her apron, improvised from an old sheet, was wet where she had been leaning over the scrubbing-board.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

Young men, some barefoot, dart around in the sand under the guidance of a volunteer coach improvising drills amid the shouts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

At times, the piano players in his groups would simply back off during part of Rollins’ solos, loath to risk following the twisting pathways of his improvising.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

He liked to play loudly, for many hours at a time, improvising ceaseless and whipsawing sagas of frenetic melodies and emphatic blaring and screeching—it was a whole lot of sound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Greek yogurt is one of the few ingredients that has matched my energy in the kitchen: constantly improvising, making it work with what I got, and never letting things go to waste.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

He was everywhere at once, pushing, pulling, sawing, hammering, improvising, jollying everyone along with comradely exhortations and giving out from every fold of his body what seemed an inexhaustible supply of acrid-smelling sweat.

From "1984" by George Orwell