improvised

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His costumes were carefully assembled and sometimes improvised.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

These solutions were often tactical workarounds designed to patch critical issues in an improvised way.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

In Lindo’s final scene, with West Indian Archie debilitated from a stroke, the actor improvised, collapsing into Washington and urging him to exercise Archie’s paralyzed right arm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

“Rick improvised a lot of his dialogue,” Duvall told Backstage magazine in 2001.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

A shower had been improvised from a rubber hose and a bucket filled with water heated by the kitchen staff.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer