improvise

Curry paste: A good curry paste is an invitation to improvise.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

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

With no operating table built for the python's size, keepers and vets said they had to improvise by connecting two operating tables together.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

They had to improvise a bed for Alba on the floor because she refused to leave the room, and when they tried to take her out she had her first tantrum.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

“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

Gilles improvises; not knowing a lick of Persian, he invents words, eventually using the names of prisoners kept in a logbook as mnemonic devices to develop his fictional tongue.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

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

“Melvin was in the gifted-and-talented program at his old school,” my mom quickly improvises.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm

The army has set up an improvised morgue in Toledo because the city's existing facility could not receive all the corpses.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Police later said they did not find "improvised explosive devices".

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

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

And now she watched, one hand in the water, the other, in a kind of anguish, at her waist, which was circled still by the improvised apron of the morning.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

At times, the piano players in his groups would simply back off during part of Rollins’ solos, loath to risk following the twisting pathways of his improvising.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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

Israeli soldiers in Lebanon said that units were scrambling and were now improvising solutions such as covering military equipment and outposts with nets to trap the drones, a method Ukraine has long relied on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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