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demo

noun

ˈde-(ˌ)mō

Definition of demo

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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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At a rally in Corpus Christi, staff verified guests by sticking gold stars on them—a callback of sorts to Talarico’s days as a public-school educator.

— Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
Gloria Steinem of the National Organization for Women attends an Equal Rights Amendment rally outside the White House on July 4, 1981, in Washington.

— Cathy Cassata, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

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