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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

So she was well outside of her comfort zone on this May afternoon when she had to improvise a pitch for a made-up, nonsensical product called a “hammer humidifier.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

The nationwide Canvas outage that disrupted colleges and universities during finals week forced campuses across the country to improvise as faculty and students suddenly lost access to exams, assignments, grades and other course materials.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

Mine I must improvise to his because of his great size.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

“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

It’s also a subtler homage than running a tornado through Kansas in black-and-white: Not until Wayne improvises a story for Scotty around “Dorothy” and rainbows does the connection become blazingly apparent.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2023

Starzinski, a 15-year veteran at the Upright Citizens Brigade, improvises jokes through a megaphone and eggs on the cars to keep honking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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

People across Kent, Surrey and Sussex brought out solar glasses, improvised pinhole cameras and kitchen colanders to watch the celestial event.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

A new study led by researchers at the University of Bologna suggests that the markings were far more organized than simple scratches or improvised decorations.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

The action tears through the estate’s lavish rooms, turning paintings, candelabras and fabric into improvised weapons before ending with a splash in the pool.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

One, who said he was aged 17, pointed out an improvised structure of bars and pallets where he and his friends had been sleeping.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

The improvised bridge wobbled and sprang a bit, but it held.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

The crew found "a harmony" like "dancing together", taking no special direction and improvising a lot.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026

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

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

People stopped sleeping in their houses, terrified at the thought that such a disaster could recur, improvising tents in open spaces or sleeping in the middle of squares and streets.

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