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[dem-oh] / ˈdɛm oʊ /
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audition
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In a product demo that looked more like a Hollywood stunt, Musk’s Tesla unveiled its long-awaited Roadster late last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Nearly a decade after Tesla first announced its second-generation Roadster, the company debuted the car in a flashy demo that seemed to challenge the laws of physics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

During the demo, which was livestreamed on Tesla's X account, the car launched from a steep steel ramp and performed a full barrel roll in mid-air before landing on its wheels.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

At the AI hardware conference, the companies did a joint demo of a method to use optical networking in AI data-center racks.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

SABIO, SHALE: Did any of you see Hammond’s face during the demo this morning?

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

She told me that students organised themselves for demos via social media messaging or through student-led organisations.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

The group, with Surkamp still at the helm, later released albums “Echo & Boo” in 2011, “Wonderlust” in 2025 alongside some live albums, remasters and unreleased demos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Like “The Blue Print,” “The Stranger in the House” is made up of demos and outtakes he created for his fantasy life as a working songwriter — possibly even in faraway Nashville.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026

They toured the U.S., checked out product demos at sea and met with executives, ultimately picking HavocAI.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

This being a direct rather than a representative democracy, membership of the demos, or sovereign body, was by right rather than by election, and every decision was taken on a one-man, one-vote basis.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

When Musk returned to the stage a year later, he demoed a prototype called Bumblebee, with visible wires and actuators.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026

GoDaddy demoed the AI app builder, agentic workflows for core small and midsize customers, and Airo for WordPress professionals.

From Barron's ● Dec. 6, 2025

Both nominations recognise Now and Then, a song that John Lennon demoed in the 1970s, and which was finally completed by his surviving bandmates Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr last year.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2025

Here are some of the key features of Apple Intelligence that The Times demoed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2024

In early October, Tesla demoed Optimus, its humanoid robot.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2022

At the Times Food Stage, Cassandra Peterson, known for her work as Elvira, will be demoing from her book “Elvira’s Cookbook From Hell.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026

It got into trouble in 2024 for demoing a tool called Recall, which took snapshots of laptop desktops every few seconds, in order to help users locate content they’d seen but couldn’t remember where.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025

In a third, Jonathan Shobrook, a fellow, was demoing his product, Adrenaline, a tool that lets you ask natural-language questions of your code base.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2023

In exchange for demoing, I'd get free unlimited yoga classes.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2023

But at the same time, you’re demoing things in actual products, like translation, that are real for people or could be real today.

From The Verge ● May 13, 2022


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