See listicle on Wiktionary
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"text": "Dishy books! Bruno Mars! Human excrement! Relieve the year that was in handy listicle form, on page 52.",
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"ref": "2013 December 2, Maria Konnikova, “A list of reasons why our brains love lists”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2014:",
"text": "\"6 TITANIC SURVIVORS WHO SHOULD HAVE DIED.\" \"THESE 9 NAZI ATROCITIES WILL MAKE YOU LOSE FAITH IN HUMANITY.\" \"5 INSANE PLANS FOR FEEDING WEST BERLIN YOU WON’T BELIEVE ARE REAL.\" These are just some of the lists that the comic strip \"XKCD\" recently joked would result from retrofitting the twentieth century's most newsworthy events with modern, Internet-style headlines. Despite the growing derision of listicles exemplified by the comic, numbered lists—a venerable media format—have become one of the most ubiquitous ways to package content on the Web.",
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"text": "The Internet did not invent the listicle. Lists-as-arguments—lists-as-stories—have, of course, been around since long, long before Buzzfeed^([sic]) came along. And they haven't just been around; they've also been both playing with and poking fun at the list form itself, one item at a time. I mention that because the Public Domain Review has unearthed this gem, \"The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage,\" a set of hand-tinted stereographs depicting a sampling of those stages, generally from the perspective of the woman being courted. The cards are undated, PDR notes, but they mostly likely originated in the late 19th century.",
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"ref": "2019 October 4, Tiffany Hsu, “You Will Be Shocked by This Article”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2020:",
"text": "And when they do, readers may find themselves on an unfamiliar website with an odd name, faced with a photo gallery of regrettable tattoos or a listicle on 22 celebrities with ugly spouses.",
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"ref": "2024 August 12, Dominic Dierkes, “Live Die Repeat Device (Formerly Known as the Edge of Tomorrow Device)” (12:18 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Jerry (Mikey Day):",
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