A show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view; hold/stage a demonstration (NOT make): ‘In London, students and lecturers staged a mass demonstration against the proposed education cuts.’ ‘Many demonstrations have been held in protest against the level of pollution.’
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As if
Do not use a noun phrase immediately after as if and as thought: ‘She looked at me as if/though she’d never seen me before’; ‘He walked with difficulty as if/though (he were) in pain.’ As conjunction: (1) In the same way that it would be if: ‘It looked as if she were made of ice, […]