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demo

[dem-oh] / ˈdɛm oʊ /
NOUN
audition
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Dailey explained the demo, and Cook paused in what Dailey described as a “terrifying” moment of thought.

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

Weizenbaum, who died in 2008, wrote Doctor as a convenient demo.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 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

Jesper had expected the rest of the crew to be collecting demo supplies in the big laundry room already.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

"I went to London and one of the first demos I recorded was Lost in France and then I was on Top Of The Pops."

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

She was eventually scouted and traveled to London to record a few demos but did not immediately hear back.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 9, 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

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

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

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

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




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