improvise

“But when the time comes to improvise, I find it difficult. That still doesn’t come naturally to me in English.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Watch the export miracle turn into a pumpkin or improvise.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Government contingency plans had "never been stress tested" and officials and ministers were "forced to improvise, establishing new emergency procurement and distribution systems within days".

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Celenza says that “the best, most resourceful” home cooks are the ones that are willing to improvise.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

Taylor can improvise harmonies, and I guess we're all warmed up from singing the Oliver! songs, because it just sounds really amazing.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli

“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

An octet of guest artists improvises in certain passages embedded within the score but also plays written-out music with the rest of the orchestra.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 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

She improvises her way through what she refuses to regard as a disastrous life, walks around rules that make no sense to her, and steamrolls her way over the objections of lesser mortals.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2023

He sings and improvises his own poems while he plays.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

LaManna improvised a stand to hold the fragile scroll while rotating it through an X-ray beam.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 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

It was improvised, deeply untraditional and exactly the kind of stuffing I wanted to eat again.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Mr. Threadgill, who plays alto saxophone and flute and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, first assembled this band 25 years ago to further a compositional strategy that is singular and yet invites improvised collaboration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

They poured out of their corner toward the improvised barricade.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Their use shows how lessons from the war in Ukraine are reverberating on distant fronts such as Pakistan, where security forces are improvising new defences against Islamist insurgents armed with the cheap, easily obtainable devices.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Though the scene has Mona improvising, it was performed as written, down to every last pause.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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

“This was a blessing in disguise,” Dad continued, but from Mom’s glance at him, I saw that he had gone off-script and was improvising.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen