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ad lib
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    HONEY and NICK (ad lib) Hello, here we are ....hi ....etc. GEORGE: (Very matter-of-factly) You must be our little guests.†  (source)
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    Instead I repeated myself ad lib without anyone but Mademoiselle Megan being aware of the fact.†  (source)
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    Another factor is twenty-four-hour news on cable TV and radio, where much of the reporting is done ad lib, making acceptable the values of spoken language, discursive and colloquial, an intellectual exercise different from that demanded in written reportage.†  (source)
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    On meeting, they ad lib greetings and, as they hurry up C. and off L. the Girls pair together, as do George and Wally, chatting gaily.†  (source)
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    As Piper ad-libbed answers, Leo jumped on the serpent's back.†  (source)
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    He hadn't counted on ad-libs.†  (source)
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    An investigative plan has been formulated, but feel free to ad-lib based on conditions on the ground.†  (source)
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    "Popo" (a thug's term for police) wasn't in the ROEs, but I figured he was ad-libbing.†  (source)
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    Because as in everything else, Hans Castorp was somewhat slow and uninspired at that, too; and his quick reckoning in this case was not ad lib, but the result of preparation, with paper and pencil in fact, carried out one evening when he had been taking his rest cure (because he had begun taking it in the evenings now, too, since everyone else did).†  (source)
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    The real answer, because my father told me to, would probably irritate multiple people in the room so I ad-libbed, "They'll help prepare me for college."†  (source)
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    Laura Keene ad-libs a line that refers to Lincoln, making the audience turn toward the back of the theater in order to witness his appearance.†  (source)
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    Bill did go on, ad-lib no doubt, but he did it well, playing up the sex side a little, how they'd finished up in a night club with three of these girls; Alec, a chap from the political adviser's office and Bifi, and Bill had been so embarrassed because he hadn't any money on him and Alec had paid, and Bifi had wanted to take a girl home and Alec had lent him another tenner— "Christ," said Leamas, "I remember now, of course I do."†  (source)
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    No ad-libbing — stick to the program.†  (source)
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