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Over the weekend, the encore presentation of the Walt Disney film took in $26 million in North America, for a global total of $86 million, according to estimates by Exhibitor Relations, a tracking firm.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
All of which raises a question for Quenneville and the Ducks coming off a summer of upheaval and turnover: What can they do for an encore?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
When I was a kid, it was a Sunday religion with a Monday night encore.
From Salon ● Sep. 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
Yes, he gets my name wrong, much like Andrea from Death-Cast so many hours ago it feels like it could’ve been a different day—I’ve lived a lifetime today and this moment is my encore.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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She was introduced by Johnny Cash and received three encores.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
After all those years of effort - and infinite encores of Whatta Man - Anastacia finally got to make her debut album at the turn of the millennium.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
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
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
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
Of course you will say, "Molly Astore," the song he was encored for.
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Charles James Lever
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
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
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
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
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