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His uncles had regaled him with tales of the easy money available for legal seasonal workers — known as braceros — which allowed them to buy land and livestock back home.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

At the same pool dedication ceremony, Biden had regaled the crowd with a story involving a tough local teen nicknamed "Corn Pop" who once confronted him at the pool.

From Fox News • Dec. 2, 2019

Not the ones with which the singer had regaled his audiences almost 40 years ago, but diatribes on designated themes: Hypocrisy; Virtue; Temperance; Gluttony; Justice and Prudence, commissioned from the writer and critic Luc Sante.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2018

Before his death in 1982 Cheever had regaled many interviewers and companions with tales of his past.

From Time Magazine Archive

A panican of hot coffee or tea by sailors called "water bewitched," a sea-biscuit, and "bit of salt-horse," had regaled the crew and restored their voices.

From Voyage of the Liberdade by Slocum, Joshua