spiel
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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
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
She said students approach the table just to pick up the medication, which would cost about $50 at a pharmacy—but once they’re there, “I have to get my little spiel in” about Amendment 4.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2024
He must have hated me behind his spiel, yet he'd ignored me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
They are suckers for the spiels of the young because they believe only the young can perceive the next new thing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2022
Angelica gives us a fine view of her back hair, and Mr. Curlylocks begins where he left off, and spiels away.
From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford
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
One source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm.
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
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
With more than 850 photographs and drawings, Phillips' documentary spews images at double-quick newsreel speed while spieling commentary at the tempo of a tobacco auctioneer.
From Time Magazine Archive
One night, while listening to a radio announcer spieling a tasteless commercial, Gagman Roger Price exploded.
From Time Magazine Archive
After spieling off a few tips about grip and stance, he belts out a few balls.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
You—that 're always spieling about how scientists ought to rule the world, instead of a bunch of spread-eagle politicians—can't you see that I'm all the science there is here?
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
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