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demo

[dem-oh] / ˈdɛm oʊ /
NOUN
audition
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Here’s what she’s learned: When technology doesn’t graduate beyond the demo stage, the problem is often that inventors and engineers are so enamored with their own creation that they assume it will find a home.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

There was a demo track titled “Death of Me” and it just grabbed my attention.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 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

How about building a website and selling the demo directly to fans?

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

I wasn’t up for watching Buzz’s demo reel or hearing about the friendly-faced Buddha she needed for the Tibetan prayer room she was designing.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

He founded the Modern Lovers in 1970 in Natick, Mass., and recorded demos in 1971 and ’72.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 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

While some games felt "like tech demos" according to Corey, others felt more substantial.

From BBC Jun. 20, 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

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

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

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

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

YouTuber Geek with Social Skills was demoing the game, and got a note that he should try inserting the game disk upside-down.

From The Verge Jul. 5, 2021




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