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That’s because the public that has bought into its inflated spiel may end up being let down with a jolt.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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

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

From Salon ● Apr. 11, 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

So, when Mrs. Prejudiced Cantrell opened her door, Jennifer began her spiel about poor kids in China and her school's fundraiser.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English

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

At this year’s convention, a long list of mostly black state legislators, many of them young, delivered uncompromisingly progressive speeches between the Presidential spiels.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 26, 2019

I heard the sound of the Park in full swing behind him—children’s laughter; bright, recorded animatronic spiels; the tromp of thousands of feet.

From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Doctorow, Cory

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

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

No more of his triumphs he lilted, like Spartacus spieling in Rome; the steel hearted warrior wilted, and followed his conquerer home.

From Rippling Rhymes by Mason, Walt