as in devising
to perform, make, or do without preparation
since the award was a complete surprise, I improvised an acceptance speech
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He is accused of devising the scheme using a contraband cell phone, from which authorities recovered several recordings of the Brooklyn native detailing the plot.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
10 Mar. 2025 -
The usual path to devising generative AI consists of what is known as autoregressive LLMs, while the promising new avenue is referred to as diffusion LLMs (dLLMs).—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Improvising.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/improvising. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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