improviser
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“There’s so much unexpectedness to it that as an improviser, it really keeps you in the moment.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
To be an organist, he writes, “requires being one-third interpreter of classical repertoire, one-third jazz improviser, and one-third theologian.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
In June, the National Endowment for the Arts announced that Blanchard, 61, would receive a 2024 Jazz Masters fellowship, the highest lifetime-achievement honor available to a United States-based improviser.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2023
Jason Sudeikis and I used to play basketball together in New York years ago when he was a writer on "SNL" and I was just a struggling actor and improviser.
From Salon • Jul. 16, 2023
Shackleton the improviser believed that it was foolish to burden themselves with equipment for every possible emergency.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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