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What does extemporize mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive) To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
  2. (transitive) To do, create, improvise, adapt, or devise in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.
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Adrian had to extemporize, that the baronet had gone down to Wales on pressing business, and would be back in a week or so.
I used to learn the songs by heart and invent and extemporize tunes for them.
The power to extemporize suggests a degree of co-creativity that endowed the clown with great autonomy.
If I felt myself losing them, I would extemporize, tell a joke, focus in on a single person who wasn't paying attention and call him out.
All of these factors forced the Indian air force to extemporize and quickly adapt to conditions for which it had not prepared.
And that night, with such instruments as he could extemporize, he operated.

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