improvised
Americanadjective
Synonym Usage
See extemporaneous.
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Origin of improvised
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The army has set up an improvised morgue in Toledo because the city's existing facility could not receive all the corpses.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
Police later said they did not find "improvised explosive devices".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
They formed a swarm and communicated by improvised message boards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
LaManna improvised a stand to hold the fragile scroll while rotating it through an X-ray beam.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
And then I go for it, risking my worst talent with an improvised, final zinger: “It’s a tough thing to have a mom with a stomach ailment, when you barely have a dad at all.”
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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