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- verb Present participle of
improvize .
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Examples
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Mr. Gilburt wud have been very crankee – he nevur liked teh improvizing.
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Since then I have risen in their estimation by improvizing a lamp — Hawaiian fashion — by putting a wisp of rag into a tin of fat.
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Distinguished in these juvenile years more by kindness than cleverness, he nevertheless manifested a certain inventiveness in improvizing baby comedies which had more appreciative audiences than some of his maturer stage productions.
Balzac 2003
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The key issue is to select the appropriate machinery, consistent with low-cost criteria, bearing in mind possibilities of improvizing and fabricating local equipment.
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Distinguished in these juvenile years more by kindness than cleverness, he nevertheless manifested a certain inventiveness in improvizing baby comedies which had more appreciative audiences than some of his maturer stage productions.
Balzac Frederick Lawton
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The research and ingenuity of the abolitionists, aided by the invention of run-away slaves -- in which faculty, so far as improvizing falsehood goes, the African race is without a rival -- have succeeded in shocking the world with a small number of pretended instances of our barbarity.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Distinguished in these juvenile years more by kindness than cleverness, he nevertheless manifested a certain inventiveness in improvizing baby comedies which had more appreciative audiences than some of his maturer stage productions.
Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910
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Hastily improvizing a whip of small cords, He laid about Him on every side, liberating and driving out sheep, oxen, and human traffickers, upsetting the tables of the exchangers and pouring out their heterogeneous accumulations of coin.
Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern James Edward Talmage 1897
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'I do believe they are improvizing an operetta on the second bridge.'
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868
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On the point of improvizing one of an impressive character, I stopped and confessed: 'I have so many that I may say I have none.'
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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