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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
"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
The show, which is produced by the aggressively hip New Theater Hollywood, recently wrapped its third “season” after debuting in February and returning for an April encore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Kerr gave an encore performance of “Spagoni the Toreador” for oldtimes’ sake, but the greatest applause of the evening went to James, who composed a song he performed for the occasion:
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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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
Bowing modestly after making his Carnegie debut with a confident, supple, eventually dazzling performance of Chopin’s 27 études, the teenage pianist Yunchan Lim had given three eloquent encores of other Chopin works.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
This being the ugliest of encores, it’s worse than bad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Concerts began at 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. and usually lasted an hour and a half—not including encores.
From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden
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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
I danced; ze air vas no lighter zan I ... ze people shouted, zey called, zey encored.
From Love's Usuries by Louis Creswicke
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
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
Darbois needed a little rest, and presented her compliments to the audience and excused herself from replying to the encoring.
From The Idol of Paris by Sarah Bernhardt
Listen, they are going on with it, they are encoring something.
From Woman and Artist by Max O'Rell
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
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