improvisational
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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A performer known for his improvisational musical comedic stylings, Watts, 54, was a late-night TV fixture as the bandleader of the house band for “The Late Late Show With James Corden.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
“I’m invincible as grief,” she sings on the opening title track, a steadily building 8½-minute epic filled with improvisational flourishes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Warsh has said he wants a more disciplined, less improvisational Fed.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
In a kitchen that’s otherwise a little improvisational, it’s my anchor: dependable, durable, and always up for whatever I decide to make.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2026
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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