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  • As Piper ad-libbed answers, Leo jumped on the serpent's back.†  (source)
  • "Popo" (a thug's term for police) wasn't in the ROEs, but I figured he was ad-libbing.†  (source)
    ad-libbing = doing without advance preparation
  • 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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  • We ad lib songs by Enrique Iglesias, Shakira, and even my favorite, Maria.†  (source)
  • 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)
    ad-libbed = done without advance preparation
  • Concerned that Pollard's famously mischievous ad-libs might get them kicked off the air, Alexander had come prepared.†  (source)
    ad-libs = things done without advanced preparation
  • No ad-libbing — stick to the program.†  (source)
    ad-libbing = doing without advance preparation
  • Lenny switched abruptly to ad lib bits.†  (source)
  • Star even ad-libbed a long excursus about my father's heroism and alleged that my grandaddy had led the chaise at San Juan Hill and then started in on my great-grandfathers.†  (source)
    ad-libbed = done without advance preparation
  • 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)
    ad-libs = things done without advanced preparation
  • [The kids clap their hands back at him and ad lib: "Two circles, kids," ect†  (source)
  • We shot it on location in the Gaines residence in Point Breeze, and we ad-libbed a lot of the dialogue, and Cat Stevens made some awesome cameos, and we set the whole thing to a funk CD Dad had lying around, and it took another month or two.†  (source)
    ad-libbed = done without advance preparation
  • There is a silence in the room and then a babble of ad lib conversation.†  (source)
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