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Synonyms for improvised

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Synonyms for improvised

spoken, performed, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought

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Synonyms for improvised

done or made using whatever is available

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"Because they're improvised, they're instant and then they're gone.
According to FC officials, the vehicle was returning from the town of Khost after a gun attack on a coal mine when it struck an improvised explosive device.
Kelly Delgado, former secretary general of the human rights group Karapatan in Southern Mindanao, was arrested at the Task Force Davao checkpoint in Lasang here on Saturday, April 27, for having in his hands an improvised tooter with a residue of shabu.
On Thursday, three improvised Mortar bombs were used by naxals near the camp.
Baria said they also seized 16 improvised explosive devices and 10 grenades.
The statement further added that the militants were busy planting an Improvised Explosive Device when the incident took place.
QUETTA -- A wall of house was partially damaged in an improvised explosive devices (IED) in Goth Gull Zaman Bugti area of Nasirabad district on Friday, no causality was reported.
PESHAWAR/CHARSADDA -- The police and security forces recovered suicide jackets and improvised explosive devices in Peshawar and Charsadda areas on Wednesday.
An improvised explosive device (IED) planted in a motorcycle was detonated when the vehicle of deputy director of Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) drove past in Dir Colony, according to police.
IANS Pyaar Ka Punchnama star Kartik Aaryan, who improvised his lines while shooting for his forthcoming film Guest Iin London, says improvising is natural for actors.
The Cyprus Theatre Organisation (Thoc) will offer an intensive three-day training course in improvised musical theatre covering all the skills that have made Showstoppers -- The Improvised Musical -- an Olivier Award-winning West End hit.
The event will run at the Blue Orange Theatre in Great Hampton Street from October 21-23, with three days of completely improvised plays, musicals, sketches, puppets and costume dramas.
In all my travels assisting nurses and other healthcare professionals to initiate their pelvic floor therapy programs, I was amazed to meet creative professionals who improvised or fashioned methods to make their work environment, procedures, or patient's life easier.
The structural awareness of the improvising material allowed the improviser to create a structure of all of the improvised material.
Near Kobane, two airstrikes destroyed two ISIL vehicles, an ISIL vehicle-borne improvised explosive device and an ISIL building, it said.