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- noun Alternative spelling of
ad-lib . - verb Alternative spelling of
ad-lib .
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Examples
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+ LIBERTY (lib) Life is one big show and in like every other performance, you have your choreography, that which is deliberately taught to a dancer for him/her to execute ... and then there are these little parts we call adlib, wherein the dancer him/herself is free to express his/her own style and personality.
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It all descended, however, into a mangle of words after Roberts failed again to say the line properly and started to adlib in individual words in no proper order.
Barack Obama can't even repeat the Oath of Office without the prompt being repeated Not a sheep 2009
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They did allow for more adlib and improv back in the day.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Greg Brady Stoned During Show 2007
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I have heard him adlib, change lines, change whole passages while reading, and still manage to get away with it.
How To Read From a Novel AND Sell Books : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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The first I fell asleep through - it turns out that early MST3K was adlib and unscripted, so isn't as funny as later seasons IMO.
June 29th, 2009 curufea 2009
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It's scripted by Hollywood screenwriters, when it should be the easiest adlib that ever tumbled off a Democrat's tongue.
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I could adlib and riff off a question for ages, but read a prepared statement — Danger, danger, Will Robinson!
June 2006 2006
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I thought the best proof of GuF's links to the Tories was how he was able to post on the content of Dave's adlib conference speech before it happened.
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What most people don't understand, good comedians do their best work when they are allowed to be creative, adlib, feel, internalize, and visualize the jokes and skits.
Daniel Holloway: Note to SNL: Black People Are Funny, Too 2008
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It's scripted by Hollywood screenwriters, when it should be the easiest adlib that ever tumbled off a Democrat's tongue.
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