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demo

[dem-oh] / ˈdɛm oʊ /
NOUN
audition
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“It’s Only Love” opens the set with acoustic guitar strums that sound as if they come from a home-recorded ’70s demo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

A demo of a touch-screen piano was another head-scratcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 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

The Roadster demo “was an engineering flex with no commercial value beyond embarrassing traditional car makers,” Gene Munster, managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management, wrote on X.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Craig Kallman heard his demo tape and got on the phone and said, “I want to see him now.”

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

The demos are lovely, ethereal sketches, documenting Townshend breathing life into his creations for the first time.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Following accusations of heavy-handedness at earlier demos, the police seemed very much out of their depth this weekend.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 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

Within days, Wolf sent the Canadian star several demos for the intro of her as-yet unreleased song, “Doghouse,” featuring Wolf alongside experimental American rapper Yeat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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

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 despite repeatedly demoing a system for consumer headsets, it never got hardware makers like Oculus and HTC to sign on, so almost nobody in the VR world could use it.

From The Verge ● Dec. 20, 2019

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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