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 Thanks to both Gosling’s tongue-in-cheek charisma — as well as the curious and utterly sincere personality that Ortiz imbues into Rocky through his voice performance and intuitive puppeteering (with plenty of improvisation) — the movie becomes a disarming interstellar, interspecies bromance. —
Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026 Baumeister is also creating a piece in the Murphy throughout the residency, with open rehearsals on May 6 and 8, a four-hour solo improvisation on May 7, and a performance with collaborator Jenna Weatherbie on May 9. —Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026 Iran is exposing the limits of a presidency built on bluff, improvisation and submission rituals. —Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2026 The house did not have a European or East Coast seriousness, but rather a Californian dimension rooted in casualness, improvisation, and lack of pretension. —Rem Koolhaas, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for improvisation
Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026 Baumeister is also creating a piece in the Murphy throughout the residency, with open rehearsals on May 6 and 8, a four-hour solo improvisation on May 7, and a performance with collaborator Jenna Weatherbie on May 9. —Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026 Iran is exposing the limits of a presidency built on bluff, improvisation and submission rituals. —Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2026 The house did not have a European or East Coast seriousness, but rather a Californian dimension rooted in casualness, improvisation, and lack of pretension. —Rem Koolhaas, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for improvisation
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Ohs still brought the same run-and-gun, video-making, improv ethos to the larger-scale (for him) film, though.— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026
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My brain was split every day of shooting between the exacting work of bunraku puppetry and the looseness of the playful improv.— Emma Forgione, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2026
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