improvised

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In the city's waterfront, where hundreds of displaced families have been living in improvised tents, some said they feared returning.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

But that’s also why it’s exciting for producer Todd Schulman, who said that after working on these highly improvised shows, “It feels like cheating if both actors know what they’re gonna say in a scene.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 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

On the day of our arrival, Father and I improvised a chamber pot, sacrificing a canning jar for this purpose.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank