extemporized

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At the finale's close, after Alex has haltingly extemporized about whether she deserves all the terrible things that have happened to her and mulls the possibility of life after death, she shrugs.

From Salon • Nov. 20, 2021

They extemporized about immigration, opioid addiction, prison reform, domestic violence, universal health care, mental illness and gun violence.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2019

“All the principal ingredients were extemporized off the top of my head. It was about a fortnight before I finished telling it to them the first time.”

From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2016

And his extemporized speech bore this out, mentioning John Cage, Cecil Taylor, John Philip Sousa and Native American ritual music.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2014

If there were no armies there would possibly be no wars, but we have shown more than once that armies can be pretty rapidly extemporized.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various