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demo

[dem-oh] / ˈdɛm oʊ /
NOUN
audition
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Anthropic staffer Sam McAllister built the retro, pixelated crab known as Clawd with code in Claude and used it to showcase some of the product’s features in a 2024 demo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Much has been made about the box set’s inclusion of “Little Girl,” a previously lost Lennon demo.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

Considering I physically jumped out of my seat at one point playing the demo when avoiding the Alien, it's safe to say Creative Assembly will once again be ratcheting up the tension with the sequel.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Cook’s personality was on full display when Dailey set up a technical demo for a senior government official involving the Vcommunicator, a late-2000s-era iPod Touch with specialized real-time translation software.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

“Raske is the better demo man—” Inej began.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

Whereas most American robotics companies only show their products in obsessively stage-managed demos, at an Ultimate Bots fight, “failure is the show,” Bulatov says.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

That material and the five other previously unheard tunes, as well as demos and remastered songs, form part of a new, posthumous album called The Shel Talmy Recordings.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The bereaved received rap demos that Elsesser’s brother and his friends had recorded.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

In 2025, it claimed, the defendants hacked into the mobile device of a producer who had collaborated with Grande and accessed unreleased masters, demos and footage from recording sessions.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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

Grohl demoed more than 50 songs - typically in the middle of the night, many of them instrumental, touching on influences as diverse as Massive Attack, Pink Floyd and Bad Brains.

From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026

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

The game was demoed to press with a wedding scene at E3 1999, and during the demo two female Sims kissed.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2024

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

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

It was another trans person who asked me this question on a Wednesday in November, half a year after I started demoing.

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

Kaname Hayashi will be demoing Lovot, a chick-like bot with large expressive eyes, flapping arms, wheels, and a wardrobe of clothes to cover its soft shell.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2019




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