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: February 6, 2025
\AD-LIB\ verb
What It Means
To ad-lib something, such as a performance or part of a performance, is to improvise it—that is, to make up words or music instead of saying, singing, or playing something that has been planned.
// The actor forgot his lines, so he ad-libbed.
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