improvisational
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Hamilton moved up from fourth on the grid to slip by Norris around the inside of Turn One, before making an opportunistic and improvisational move down the inside of Turn Nine to grab the lead.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
With its trademark improvisational, genre-blending style, the band became known for never performing the same show twice, winning an avid and diverse legion of fans, and selling millions of records.
From Barron's • Jan. 11, 2026
The plan for an improvisational, conversational, easy, breezy holiday cabaret lasted about two weeks before morphing into what Jinkx describes as a “two-act variety show, musicale, theatrical spectacular.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
Mr. Pierce, the author of two previous books on the history of animation and Disney studios, shows through his anecdotes how fluid and improvisational collaboration can be—and how much fun.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
Compared with my own lockstep march toward success, the direct arrow shot of my trajectory from Princeton to Harvard to my desk on the forty-seventh floor, Barack’s path was an improvisational zigzag through disparate worlds.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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