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as in rally
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 display
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 demonstration
The No Kings demonstrations will be remembered as an effective, hopeful rejoinder to a presidency increasingly reliant on deliberate provocation and needless cruelty.
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Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
China brought two spacecraft together high above Earth as part of a refueling demonstration mission, according to a space situational awareness company.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 18 June 2025
Anti-Musk sentiment spilled onto sidewalks outside of Tesla showrooms with 60 demonstrations scheduled Saturday in cities such as Delray Beach, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; and Decatur, Georgia, as part of the Tesla Takedown movement, which began in mid-February amid Musk’s role with DOGE.
—Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
Dozens of demonstrations are planned in California for No Kings Day June 14.
—Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
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Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 June 2025
China brought two spacecraft together high above Earth as part of a refueling demonstration mission, according to a space situational awareness company.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 18 June 2025
Anti-Musk sentiment spilled onto sidewalks outside of Tesla showrooms with 60 demonstrations scheduled Saturday in cities such as Delray Beach, Florida; Louisville, Kentucky; and Decatur, Georgia, as part of the Tesla Takedown movement, which began in mid-February amid Musk’s role with DOGE.
—Auzinea Bacon, CNN Money, 7 June 2025
Dozens of demonstrations are planned in California for No Kings Day June 14.
—Sarah Linn, Sacbee.com, 6 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for demonstration
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Protesters in support of Mahmoud Khalil rally in New York City's Foley Square on April 17, 2025.—
Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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Troche scored five goals and led this team in a second-half rally for an 11-10 victory in overtime against St. Thomas Aquinas in the state semifinal.—
Alex Kushel,
Sun Sentinel,
20 June 2025
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The end of the exhibit includes a touchscreen display showing flights at CLT in real time.—
Chase Jordan,
Charlotte Observer,
26 June 2025
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The original Birkin, acquired by Paris collector Catherine B. in 2000, was put on public display for the first time in continental Europe at Sotheby’s Paris galleries last fall, and then at Sotheby’s flagship in Hong Kong earlier this year, drawing thousands of visitors.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
26 June 2025
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The live demo showed a user fetching data on a network outage and making UI widgets in real time to manage it.—
Patrick Moorhead,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
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While the median age of the broadcast viewer is now north of 65 years—bear in mind that the terminal age of the medium’s eldest trafficked demo is 54 years—streaming audiences are at often as much as 30 years younger, or far closer to the median age of the U.S. population at large (38.9).—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
20 June 2025
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Nationwide, more than 145 people have been hospitalized with measles so far this year, federal data show, and many of those hospitalized have needed intensive care.—
Rong-Gong Lin II,
Los Angeles Times,
26 June 2025
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Almost 205,000 Hispanics live in Mecklenburg, the data shows, or about 58% of the region’s population of Latinos.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
26 June 2025
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“Demonstration.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demonstration. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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