as in impromptu
something that is performed, made, or done without preparation
that comedy skit was a totally unrehearsed improvisation
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Recent Examples of improvisation
That was just spontaneous; Mike creates a lot of space for improvisation.
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Selome Hailu, Variety, 24 Feb. 2025
The New Yorker was no longer an improvisation so slight that it could be lost in a poker game.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Kathryn Hahn is revisiting some of the wildest improvisations that made it into Step Brothers — and some that didn’t.
—John Russell, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Ladbroke's, in London…The Committee, a smart little group who do a revue of often funny, frozen improvisations, smashing head-on into politics…The wily, eighteenth-century satirist.
—Vogue, 2 Feb. 2025
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Selome Hailu, Variety, 24 Feb. 2025
The New Yorker was no longer an improvisation so slight that it could be lost in a poker game.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
Kathryn Hahn is revisiting some of the wildest improvisations that made it into Step Brothers — and some that didn’t.
—John Russell, People.com, 20 Dec. 2024
Ladbroke's, in London…The Committee, a smart little group who do a revue of often funny, frozen improvisations, smashing head-on into politics…The wily, eighteenth-century satirist.
—Vogue, 2 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for improvisation
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“Improvisation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/improvisation. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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