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If you want to hear incoherent ad-libbing, take a trip to the links I posted.
Barack Obama can't even repeat the Oath of Office without the prompt being repeated Not a sheep 2009
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But now I find it impossible to walk in the countryside without ad-libbing a commentary.
This much I know: Bill Oddie Alice Fisher 2010
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There's a lot of ad-libbing between them that is just great; it sounds like people who used to date.
‘A-Team Week’: Jessica Biel Brings Badass New ‘Nemesis’ to the Soldiers of Fortune » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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The House passed the bill in May 1929 (Ben Stein was ad libbing and got the date wrong), well before the peak of the business cycle and the stock-market crash.
Goodbye, Free Trade? Douglas A. Irwin 2010
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And coaches aside, don't think Fouts won't do some ad-libbing on the field, sprinkling in an audible or two.
The not-so-Super team: Best players never to reach the final 2009
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He later apologized to the Anti-Defamation League, but not to NPR, saying, "I was of course ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word, but I was angry at the time because of NPR's willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough."
Rabbis buy ad targeting Fox News Rabbis' ad aims at Beck, Ailes Paul Farhi 2011
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The president of Cape Verde wouldn't agree to military intervention, and the president of Benin went off script, "ad-libbing" during the meeting, according to the diplomat.
African Leaders to Try Again to Persuade Ivory Coast President to Go Will Connors 2011
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April 21st, 2010 8: 43 pm ET with such unfounded statistics, is there any wonder this guy is a joke? where does he get these numbers from? michael, please stop ad libbing. pharoah
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What I mean by doing the right things is they don't do a lot of ad-libbing.
Capitals defensemen John Carlson, Karl Alzner earning more responsibility Katie Carrera 2011
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While he was hoping his magnetic seals held, he was busy ad-libbing technobabble to talk the neo-hippie through the complicated emergency shutdown sequence in anticipation of an EMP blast.
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