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  • verb Present participle of improvise.

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Examples

  • THE Hawaiian people have been from time immemorial lovers of poetry and music, and have been apt in improvising historic poems, songs of love, and chants of worship, so that praises of the living or wails over the dead were with them but the natural statement of their feelings.

    Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen 1898

  • Now, here's the thing that sucks about this, NOW: when I am improvising, which is pretty much what I was doing tonight, just making it up as I went along I can't remember anything that I said, or did.

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: August 2001 Archives 2001

  • Now, here's the thing that sucks about this, NOW: when I am improvising, which is pretty much what I was doing tonight, just making it up as I went along I can't remember anything that I said, or did.

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: August 2001 Archives 2001

  • Now, here's the thing that sucks about this, NOW: when I am improvising, which is pretty much what I was doing tonight, just making it up as I went along I can't remember anything that I said, or did.

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: August 2001 Archives 2001

  • Now, here's the thing that sucks about this, NOW: when I am improvising, which is pretty much what I was doing tonight, just making it up as I went along I can't remember anything that I said, or did.

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: August 2001 Archives 2001

  • Now, here's the thing that sucks about this, NOW: when I am improvising, which is pretty much what I was doing tonight, just making it up as I went along I can't remember anything that I said, or did.

    WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: August 2001 Archives 2001

  • I thought, while am at it, I could also share one of the outcomes of what I use to kill my evenings at home currently, namely improvising on top of self played acoustic guitar loops which are getting mangled in GleechLab.

    chimeric.de 2009

  • Arne Moll, 7 February 2009, 11.11: Frits, I thought you meant remembering and playing (fixed) music rather than composing or improvising, which is of course something completely ...

    ChessVibes 2009

  • There was surely "improvising" at the black sites from beyond what the OLC memos authorize.

    In Defense Of The CIA | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • It's like doing a couple of versions of something or just kind of improvising little changes to the melody and just singing, you know, in a way that feels good.

    Hot Chip Finds Magic in the 'Dark' 2008

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