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When I was a kid, it was a Sunday religion with a Monday night encore.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
For an encore he helped reduce Essex from 171-3 to 177 all out in the space of 26 balls, his five wickets coming in 14 deliveries without conceding a run.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
As an encore, Noseda led the overture to Bernstein’s “Candide” with real flair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
"Back in the old days, they didn't used to helicopter off the minute they'd done the encore, they would come up and chill at the house until the roads cleared."
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
‘Well, it’s the only pig ball I have. So don’t ask for an encore.’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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She was introduced by Johnny Cash and received three encores.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Its episodic encores are currently airing on Fox as a lead-in to “The Faithful,” whose showrunner, René Echevarria, is an old hand at both network and cable, and whose work includes “The 4400.”
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
As if to signal that he wasn’t at all nervous about the sudden spotlight, at Carnegie he blazed past the concert’s two-hour running time, returning to the stage for no fewer than seven encores.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
Their enthusiasm delighted conductor Marin Alsop, who ordered several impromptu encores.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023
He also organized a cadre of professional applauders, known as a “claque,” to provide enthusiastic ovations, demand encores, and cry “Brava!” for any performer willing to pay.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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The band encored with their classic tune "Casino Queen," the name of a riverboat casino in East St. Louis, Illinois.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2021
Faiyaz encored with the song but directed the audience to sing along with the record, rather than singing it himself.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2018
A classic commercial parody was encored live: Super Bass-o-Matic, with pitchman Dan Aykroyd and Laraine Newmain repeating their performances from 1976.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2015
Patience among Hawks fans wore thin when Kane encored a second straight first-round postseason exit with more fraternity-house antics.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 28, 2013
Marie Muller; and at the conclusion of the concert, in which he had encored every one of the pieces, the careful amateur from the West gave the sum of sixpence.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson
Love wrapped up the regular set with another brief shot of the Stones' "Sympathy" before encoring with Hole's "Doll Parts."
From Reuters ● Apr. 26, 2010
We applaud lustily; we begin the encoring business here, which, having once started, we do not intend to give up again.
From Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." by Jenny Wren
For an hour Mrs. Bindle's guests sang, encoring themselves with enthusiasm.
From Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles by Hebert Jenkins
When he finished, and the audience was tumultuously encoring him, a hand was laid on the arm of the tallest of the three men, who stood apart from the crowd.
From Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various
To think of passing over Charley’s recitation and encoring a silly old song like Lilac’s.
From White Lilac; or the Queen of the May by Amy Walton
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