improvisation

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When movement finally began, it resembled not so much order as managed improvisation.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2026

But if your brain operates more like mine — prone to a certain kind of domestic improvisation — it can help to take one extra pass and translate each zone into actual tasks.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026

His intuitive grasp of the logic of power, his genius for improvisation, and his willingness to adapt dramatic and unconventional approaches equip him with skills that a war president needs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

For the American firms and American consumers who bear the brunt of tariffs, the practical question is simpler: Will U.S. trade policy become stable and predictable, or will it remain an instrument of constant improvisation?

From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026

Nonetheless, visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann