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By 2014, tourists were improvising with items like scrunchies, ribbons and earphones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

Having recognized perhaps that this wasn’t exactly a jazz crowd, André helpfully explained that he and the band were improvising in real time: “Everything we play every night, we make it up,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2024

"The film feels like a documentary because I did not give them any lines to learn. They were improvising their dialogue."

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2022

"He'd tell us, then we'd try to re-stage that. While the actors were improvising, Neil would say, 'I think I did that and I said that.' And then we'd do those things."

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2022

They flung lines from Browning's "In a Balcony" at each other as though they were improvising.

From Lady Larkspur by Nicholson, Meredith