extemporaneous

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There were times when his unplanned, extemporaneous delivery would cause frustration.

From Salon • Feb. 29, 2024

Pro wrestling historically has used an extemporaneous presentation while WWE turned to scripts telling wrestlers how to act and speak rather than having flexibility to craft individualized characters.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2023

The concept has a history stretching back to at least the First Great Awakening in 18th-century New England, when crowds of newly fervent Protestants gathered to hear vivid extemporaneous sermons by pastors like Jonathan Edwards.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

Airtime that typically would have gone to talking heads is simply replaced by more live action, so Greenberg has essentially orchestrated a two-hour-long extemporaneous podcast by night’s end.

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2022

Speros’s extemporaneous opening act was to decide which figures from popular culture we looked like: DiPaola was Bart Simpson, Chavez was Zorro, Dimmie was a soul singer from the 1970s.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover