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For the encore, the band launch into a cover of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, external, prompting a massive outbreak of pogo-ing in the moshpit.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
The “Wonderful Tonight” guitarist and singer was expected to return to the Movistar Arena stage for an encore but wrapped the set because of the incident.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
This jazz thing is six songs, including encore.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
The encore was pure joy, with the English-language bops Dynamite and Butter cosying up to the nostalgic pop of 2019's Mikrokosmos.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2026
But the choir returned for an encore anyway, with tambourines, to sing: Swing low, sweet Chariot, And scoop me from the mire; Take me up to Glory, Snatched from Eternal Fire.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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As the encores continued, Browne turned in a moving rendition of “Take It Easy,” the song that he penned with the late Glenn Frey and that launched the Eagles on a path towards superstardom.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
"Friends & Family Christmas" encores Sunday, Dec. 24 at 9 a.m.
From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023
Then there was this week’s ugliest of encores, a three-game Diamondbacks domination in which the Dodgers never led.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
A showy solo in an Italian opera might elicit spontaneous applause and even encores.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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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
"Sure we did, all of us!" encored the cracking treble of the same tall, well-dressed young man.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson
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
Listen, they are going on with it, they are encoring something.
From Woman and Artist by O'Rell, Max
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 Wren, Jenny
The wine-shop family encircled her, encoring her vociferously.
From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Vorst, Marie Van
But is it only men who are encoring so ecstatically?
From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda
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