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is winging

  • present progressive
    of wing (3rd person singular).
    wing
    noun
    either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.

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Your wife thinks you’re both disrespectful, you think your wife’s overreaching, and your teen is winging it while his parents duke out who’s in charge.

From Washington Post Dec. 2, 2022

When ask when he’s supposed to move, Johnson said he is winging it.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 30, 2021

Watching her play and deploy her vast arsenal of weapons can be intoxicating, but there is also the sense that she is winging it, relying on instinct rather than a deep tactical understanding.

From New York Times Sep. 3, 2021

Yet if it's terrifying to feel like the only fraud in your field or organisation, it's equally terrifying to confront the truth that everyone is winging it.

From BBC Apr. 24, 2016

His is now an astral body, and through golden spaces of imagination his soul is winging her untrammelled flight.

From Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame