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demo

noun

ˈde-(ˌ)mō

Definition of demo

British

as in demonstration

a mass meeting for the purpose of displaying or arousing support for a cause or person a demo to support the Prime Minister

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Recent Examples of demo Estrogen puts the brakes on the demo crew by capping how much gets torn down and keeps the building crew ramped up to finish the rebuild. — Cheryl Fenton, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2026 And in that garden shed was a one person studio where Jody Williams Music’s favorite demo producer, Nathan Chapman, was making demos. — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2026 Initially, Fedorets envisions cubesat tech demo missions, which would pave the way for mid-sized missions that could collect samples. — Andrew Jones, Space.com, 26 Oct. 2026 Brody points to Steve Jobs, Holmes’s idol, who walked through the first iPhone demo onstage in 2007 using a prototype that barely worked. — Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for demo

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The crowd below, fresh from a demonstration to protest education cuts by libertarian President Javier Milei, had stopped outside her apartment to chant her name.

— Marina Dias, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026
How the machines respond to these situations could better indicate their practical capabilities than isolated demonstrations of individual movements.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Nov. 2026

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Anyone who fought the traffic the day of the No Kings rally and the Pulse parade knows that traffic is already in gridlock around the center.

— Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026
Those moves gave back the big gains seen in Wednesday's postelection rally and then some.

— Sean Conlon,Gina Francolla,Christopher Hayes,Nick Wells, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of rally

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