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spiel

noun

Definition of spiel

as in presentation

informal a fast utterance that someone has often said before and that is usually intended to persuade people to buy something, agree to something, etc. I listened to the salesman's spiel but still refused to buy anything. He gave me a long spiel about the benefits of joining the club.

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Recent Examples of spiel Eric delivered a decent spiel about sperm motility as a proxy for health and how sperm racing drew attention to important issues. — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026 Push a nearby button and hear a spiel. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Feb. 2026 And so is my spiel about sports narratives. — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 18 Feb. 2026 Following his initial spiel, Vitello was told that the initial report didn’t say definitively that the Giants were hiring him — just that the team was close to offering him a job. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for spiel

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Missouri residents can access informational presentations about Benton’s life work for free.

— Zuri Primos July 26, Kansas City Star, 26 July 2026
One of the most intriguing parts of the evening involved the correspondents’ association’s annual journalism awards presentation.

— Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 25 July 2026

Definition of presentation

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What mattered in the demonstration was Sparky’s ability to work with speech, handwriting, and a diagram while leaving the mathematical work to the student.

— Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
His speech also came the week after the White House forced out the three remaining members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, which helps election officials improve the administration of elections.

— Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 21 July 2026

Definition of speech

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No lecture about how her actions might inflame an already toxic situation involving the league’s most visible player.

— Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026
The man who was convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie is going on trial again, this time in a federal terrorism case that is probing deeper into what allegedly motivated the stabbing on a lecture stage in 2022.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026

Definition of lecture

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Patel arrived in Jakarta shortly after talks with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet concerning joint efforts to combat international online scam operations that cheat victims out of billions of dollars annually.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
There was talk after every season about Bill threatening to quit and the board talking him out of it.

— James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026

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