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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

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

Here, we see the Muppets, also celebrating a 70th anniversary, try and fail to give a safety spiel.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025

So I’m a little flustered as I go into my spiel about cutting back my homework, and during it Ms. Rucker’s expression never cracks.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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 got some of my best spiels from the funniest places!

From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

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

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The faint sounds of the tiki-drums and the spieling Jungle Cruise guides leaked through the room, a low-key ambient buzz from two of the Park’s oldest rides.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow