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demo

[dem-oh] / ˈdɛm oʊ /
NOUN
audition
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A demo of a touch-screen piano was another head-scratcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

In a product demo that looked more like a Hollywood stunt, Musk’s Tesla unveiled its long-awaited Roadster late last week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

The new Roadster demo gave Tesla shares a short boost, but they quickly came back to Earth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 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

The unveiling of the STM and the planned demo, scheduled to take place later this year, has ignited fervor across the globe.

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

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

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Like “The Blue Print,” “The Stranger in the House” is made up of demos and outtakes he created for his fantasy life as a working songwriter — possibly even in faraway Nashville.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 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

It’s one of the great things about my creative team: We’re not married to the demos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 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

This is an enormous deal, and we know this because we just demoed it with Twitter, and it was 100 times worse than you thought it’d be.

From Slate ● Nov. 6, 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

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

Instead of selling foundation door to door or hosting awkward Tupperware parties in the suburbs, though, MLM reps are now demoing Younique foundation on Facebook Live and proffering leggings and tunic giveaways on Instagram.

From The Verge ● Sep. 13, 2017


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