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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spruik.

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Examples

  • Attention anyone who, like me, compulsively watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer but has only ever glimpsed How I Met Your Mother through random channel-surfing, last-two-minutes-catching or individual episode spruiks.

    2009 February « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009

  • Attention anyone who, like me, compulsively watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer but has only ever glimpsed How I Met Your Mother through random channel-surfing, last-two-minutes-catching or individual episode spruiks.

    A Public Service Announcement « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009

  • Attention anyone who, like me, compulsively watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer but has only ever glimpsed How I Met Your Mother through random channel-surfing, last-two-minutes-catching or individual episode spruiks.

    2009 February 23 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009

  • David Jones says carbon tax fears partly to blame for record fall in sales as PM spruiks policy PRIME Minister Julia Gillard's carbon pricing sales pitch has been dealt a fresh blow after one of the country's top retailers declared the policy was partly to blame for a dramatic collapse in consumer confidence.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • David Jones says carbon tax fears partly to blame for record fall in sales as PM spruiks policy PRIME Minister Julia Gillard's carbon pricing sales pitch has been dealt a fresh blow after one of the country's top retailers declared the policy was partly to blame for a dramatic collapse in consumer confidence.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Retail spruiks its importance to economy THE retailing retail sector has launched its own sell job as the employers of one in 10 Australians in an industry worth $120 billion to the economy.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • David Jones says carbon tax fears partly to blame for record fall in sales as PM spruiks policy PRIME Minister Julia Gillard's carbon pricing sales pitch has been dealt a fresh blow after one of the country's top retailers declared the policy was partly to blame for a dramatic collapse in consumer confidence.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Rudd spruiks sustainable growth at UN AUSTRALIA's Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has told the United Nations the world's leaders need to look beyond the next election cycle and take the measures necessary to rebuild sustainable economic growth.

    The Australian | News | 2011

  • Vantage Goldfields spruiks $30m IPO SOUTH African tiddler Vantage Goldfields is planning an unusual move in a $30 million capital raising and listing in Australia.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Australia when it spruiks sustainable development in a former colony that is also its largest aid recipient.

    newmatilda.com - Comments kuke 2010

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