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After Ossoff mocked Trump’s “young, beautiful girls” spiel, however, it seems the White House realized how embarrassing the situation is for the president.

From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

"The spiel that I'm reading from people saying how off it we are. We won two games on the bounce and you're upset about it, I don't get it."

From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025

Why otherwise intelligent people, including political leaders and finance professionals, swallowed his spiel whole is the enduring mystery about Bankman-Fried and crypto.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

Instead, he jumped right into this aggressive spiel about how he was fully aware Stan's hadn’t been the only death premonition I’d experienced.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

Learned me all his spiels and everythin', and when I come back from winterin' in that Phœnix country I tole 'em I was back from New York.

From Bat Wing Bowles by Dane Coolidge

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

Clifton's voice came to me as he spieled his directions for making it dance, and I held it by the feet and stretched its neck, seeing it crumple and slide forward.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

After spieling off a few tips about grip and stance, he belts out a few balls.

From Time Magazine Archive

Did y'ever hear the like we should pay a sick benefit because some one gets hurted spieling from baseball already?

From The Competitive Nephew by Montague Glass