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demo

[dem-oh] / ˈdɛm oʊ /
NOUN
audition
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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

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

In 1973, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Tom Scholz, founder of the Boston-area band Mother’s Milk, sent out a demo tape of songs to two-dozen or so record companies.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

For some people closer to my age demo, maybe it was a little too much — their feet hurt.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

He almost destroyed the entire STM demo today with his big talk.

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

Two years ago, Owen Biddle, who definitely has the chops, listened to the demos and said we should record this as an album.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

With its young band cutting demos on a four-track cassette recorder, “Nimrods” could have been set in 2026, 1996 or 1976 — phones and social media are practically nonexistent in the plot.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

But Parks stuck with it, tirelessly promoting the sport via demos at hospitals, tennis clubs and even in car parks.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

That leaves investors with a clearer path than the headlines suggest: own the platform for versality and flexibility, screen the suppliers for revenue, avoid paying up for the humanoid demos.

From MarketWatch Jul. 1, 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

One of the launch partners that was demoed during the DevDay keynote was Canva, the graphic design application.

From Barron's Oct. 10, 2025

Wright demoed the songs from the “Dream Weaver” LP on an array of then-novel electronic instruments, which he’d gotten interested in shortly before leaving Spooky Tooth.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2023

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

That's what researchers demoing experimental tech at Warwick University's Festival of Innovation are hoping to find out.

From BBC Jan. 31, 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

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

Microsoft only spent 11 seconds of its 49 minute event demoing the Surface Pro 8 without a peripheral you’ll need to pay extra for.

From The Verge Sep. 22, 2021




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