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Throws in diamonds as forms of sales talk (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pitches

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'throws' is the definition.
(pitch is a kind of throw)

'diamonds as forms of sales talk' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'sales talk' could be 'pitch' (synonyms) and 'pitch' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'es' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' is the link.

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