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demo

[dem-oh] / ˈdɛm oʊ /
NOUN
audition
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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

Eastern time on its 13th demo mission, soaring on an easterly trajectory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

“Go into demo mode on that Elucidator, sugar,” Hodge told Katherine.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

From quick reels on how to fix cracks in walls, to complicated YouTube tutorials on building alcove seating from scratch, the internet is chock-a-block with seemingly endless home improvement demos.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

“There would be like skateboarding demos, there would be cool stuff going on, but my sister was just with all the grown-ups, and she preferred it,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Much of the current humanoid hype reflects scripted demos, human-controlled teleoperation, or task-specific automation, rather than real general-purpose autonomy, they note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025

AI companies, including OpenAI, Google and Meta, have demoed or shared their tools with movie and TV studios and directors.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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

The company demoed a text generator that can read long Word documents and write blog posts highlighting the most relevant points.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2023

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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