encore

"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

Cal Raleigh has struggled mightily in the encore to his 2025, when he put up one of MLB’s greatest ever offensive seasons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

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

In an age when far too many politicians serve past their sell-by date, a leader who knows when to take a bow and go out with an encore is rare.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

They did the one planned encore, and that was it.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

As with previous years, the evening concluded with a series of showstopping encores, including Springsteen’s performance of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.”

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2025

"Friends & Family Christmas" encores Sunday, Dec. 24 at 9 a.m.

From Salon ● Dec. 23, 2023

This being the ugliest of encores, it’s worse than bad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

Their enthusiasm delighted conductor Marin Alsop, who ordered several impromptu encores.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2023

A showy solo in an Italian opera might elicit spontaneous applause and even encores.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

Krall encored with covers of The Band’s “Ophelia” and Bob Dylan’s “Wallflower,” before putting an old 78 on the gramophone to serenade her happy audience as they headed out of the hall.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2014

Nilsson and Titjiens were encored only for the grand trio.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Clara Louise Kellogg

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

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

The audience was in an encoring humour, but, thank goodness, only a few encores were taken, and the others left, otherwise none of us would have been home till sunrise.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 by Various

Patti; and in the duets they electrified the audience, who, not content with encoring each, insisted upon some half-dozen recalls.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by James H. Mapleson

The wine-shop family encircled her, encoring her vociferously.

From The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode by Marie Van Vorst