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A cybersecurity incident at a private contractor has halted the nation’s bankruptcy-noticing system for a week, forcing courts across the country to improvise emergency measures as the company works to restore service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

If you like quarterbacks who improvise, Tanner is your guy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

Watch the export miracle turn into a pumpkin or improvise.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

The scale of the disaster has overwhelmed local services, forcing institutions to improvise.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

I improvise, trying to sound as though I am reciting a memorized message, without inflection in the words.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

“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

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

‘Jane Austen Unscripted’ at the Garry Marshall Theatre Attention, “Bridgerton” fans: Impro Theatre improvises full-length Regency-era rom-coms in an outdoor setting in the company’s long-running hit show.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2023

She improvises with video calls, but knows other women have lost jobs because they cannot work effectively.

From Reuters ● Mar. 23, 2023

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

From Batman masks to offline maps, young Indian protesters have responded to one of New Delhi's toughest security crackdowns with improvised tactics designed to evade surveillance and keep demonstrations alive.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

British counterterrorism police said Tuesday that the vans didn’t contain improvised explosives, but they recovered some fuel in the vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Rosales is aware that the world has its eyes on L.A. and that people everywhere are learning the cultural vernacular improvised by Cali’s brown folks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Officials explained that such eggs were often smuggled in improvised incubators and in conditions that endangered the welfare of developing embryos and hatchlings.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Once, during a performance when she was singing in German, she forgot some words and improvised others instead.

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman

He sometimes rapped his jokes, thrived at improvising and roasted celebrities with sharp punches, leaving them in splits.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

When director Robert Vince was filming "Air Bud Returns," he was impressed to see Roscoe, his four-legged star, improvising concern in a scene where two humans burst into tears.

From Barron's ● May 10, 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

And he adds that his friendship with Plaza enabled him to feel comfortable throwing out ideas during recording, adding that the improvising and tweaking went both ways, with the writers constantly adding new ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2026

Sometimes he changes his notation so conspicuously that he seems to be improvising sets of variations.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas