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demonstrations

noun

plural of demonstration

as in rallies

a mass meeting for the purpose of displaying or arousing support for a cause or person disgruntled students organized a demonstration to protest the change in university policy

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as in displays

an outward and often exaggerated indication of something abstract (as a feeling) for effect staged a grand demonstration of her love for her husband with a candlelight-and-champagne Valentine's Day dinner

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Recent Examples of demonstrations However, the more immediate goal is a series of public flight demonstrations scheduled for the Farnborough International Airshow in July 2026. —

David Szondy april 17, New Atlas, 17 Apr. 2026 Public flight demonstrations are planned, including at the Farnborough International Airshow in July. —

Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026 The free event will feature children’s crafts, activities and play spaces, farm animals to observe and pet, hayrides, barrel train rides, farm demonstrations, face painting and more, according to a press release about the celebration. —

Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026 Zolghadr played a central role in the regime’s strategies for cracking down on anti-government demonstrations, including in the 2009 Green Movement protests. —

Sudarsan Raghavan, New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2026 His call for protests in January brought hundreds of thousands into the streets in the largest demonstrations in years. —

Adam Geller, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2026 León said the band's goal at demonstrations is to redirect protesters' anger and sorrow. —

Adrian Florido, NPR, 16 Apr. 2026 The marketplace features the work of jewelry artists, beadmakers, gemstone specialists, vintage dealers, textile designers and creative suppliers, live demonstrations and workshops. —

Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2026 The demonstrations have been primarily instigated by farmers, agricultural contractors and road haulage operators, who are upset with the government’s response to the spike in fuel prices since the onset of the Iran war. —

Michael Considine, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2026

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Szépvölgyi mocked the prime minister, who is 62, for seeming unsteady when boos erupted at one of his recent rallies.

— Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
The influential teachers union, an ally of Mayor Brandon Johnson, wants educators to participate in protests in the nation’s third-largest city on May 1, coinciding with workers’ rights rallies worldwide.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026