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And meaningful progress turns out to be much harder than simply refashioning an exhibit or a docent’s spiel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

I brought nice stationary to school, gave all the kids my spiel about the horrors of animal testing, and asked them to spend their recess telling P&G their thoughts.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025

Mr. Brady pulled off Don Profondo’s patter song “Medaglie incomparabili,” a tongue-twisting list of precious objects, as an auctioneer’s spiel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025

He has long integrated assertions about a third term into his political spiel.

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025

Not until we’re all sitting out onstage and Caesar Flickerman, hair and face highlighted in lavender this year, has done his opening spiel and the tributes begin their interviews.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Wang now spends his time trying to help other victims of similar spiels.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

The playoff music, meant to signal winners to wrap up their spiels, began playing more than halfway into Brody’s speech.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025

The stray references in these spiels are still hot, such as the one to “John Lovitz” and “SNL when it was good.”

From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2024

He was hired to do sleight-of-hand tricks at a shop in Manhattan and later had his first writing credit, a 1946 booklet, “The Encyclopedia of Patter,” inspired by magicians’ onstage spiels.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023

I hear the whaups on windy days    Cry up among the peat    Whaur, on the road that spiels the braes,    I've heard ma ain sheep's feet.

From Penny Plain by O. Douglas

Moses sipped, while his team spieled tasting notes that reminded me of a Shel Silverstein poem.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

"You can't lose," spieled a full-page ad by Doubleday & Co. in the New York Times Book Review.

From Time Magazine Archive

A high-pressure salesman trying to sell Kaufman some goldmine stock spieled dramatically: "You can shovel the gold right off the ground into wheelbarrows."

From Time Magazine Archive

So Robbins went to the production brass of ABC, and spieled out a scenario.

From Time Magazine Archive

A clipped, insinuating voice spieled words whose meaning I couldn't catch and I was about to pass on when I saw the boy.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

One night, while listening to a radio announcer spieling a tasteless commercial, Gagman Roger Price exploded.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a few hours he would be on a campus stage singing his songs and spieling his narrative jazz poetry to an audience of college kids.

From Time Magazine Archive

Undergraduate Sibley's job was to stand dumbly but alluringly beside the freaks while the barker was spieling.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was just what me and Buck wanted—a regular business at a permanent stand, with an open air spieling with tonsilitis on the street corners every evening.

From The Gentle Grafter by H. C. Greening