sales pitch

noun

: a speech that is given in order to persuade someone to buy something
We got the whole sales pitch from the car salesman.
sometimes used figuratively
It's not clear if voters liked the governor's sales pitch enough to reelect her.

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If the content reviewed by generative AI to enact the persona had seemed more emotionally based, the sales pitch would have gone in that direction instead. Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 Refrain from letting a fast-talking sales pitch result in emotional, physical or financial trouble. Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2025 Perhaps the country had too many of its own idols—or perhaps, as the new musical biopic Better Man argues, Williams was too gleefully self-deprecating to sincerely make the sales pitch. David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Jan. 2025 Schoen’s sales pitch to ownership undoubtedly will be that the team is a quarterback away from contending. Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sales pitch 

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“Sales pitch.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sales%20pitch. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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