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demo

[dem-oh] / ˈdɛm oʊ /
NOUN
audition
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At the demo event, Musk said production will begin in 2028.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

The demo shown to journalists, covering the opening hour and a later section of the adventure, unfolded much as it did in the 1998 original.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

In 2026 alone, a demo was pushed back multiple times, most recently from an Oct.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

That sold for £2,400 and an early Oasis demo tape sold for £3,600.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

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

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

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

That material and the five other previously unheard tunes, as well as demos and remastered songs, form part of a new, posthumous album called The Shel Talmy Recordings.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 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

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

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

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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