Definitions
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- noun An
article based around a list.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The country music star is all butterflies and Jesus love onstage, but this scintillating Facebook quiz of a listicle is a cry for help from a cold, lonely prison.
Gawker 2009
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"listicle" - that all-too-popular journalistic device that organizes information into ranked lists, such as "The Top Five Ways to Flatten Your Abs" or "The 10 Best Margaritas in Town."
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And while we might decry the era of atrophied attention spans that's brought us bite-sized blog posts and slimy creations like the "listicle", for better or for worse, the text is the medium of the moment.
Stefan Sirucek: The Book of Bad Decisions: Texts From Last Night Stefan Sirucek 2010
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And while we might decry the era of atrophied attention spans that's brought us bite-sized blog posts and slimy creations like the "listicle", for better or for worse, the text is the medium of the moment.
Stefan Sirucek: The Book of Bad Decisions: Texts From Last Night Stefan Sirucek 2010
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This is Newsweek refusing to do the legwork of real journalism focusing on the Jewish community, and instead creating yet another "listicle" that can do nothing but entertain.
Steven I. Weiss: Why Newsweek's 50 Most Influential Rabbis...Aren't 2009
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I don't know what I was thinking, mucking about yesterday with Time Magazine's annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world, when there was a much more important listicle to talk about: the 2009 list of the Top 25 Psychiatric Prescriptions, released by IMS Health.
Top 25 Psychiatric Medicines List Released The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Anyway, all of this research and criticism apparently resulted in this listicle on Joe Klein's blog, which was generally regarded as a game-changing moment in the 2008 election.
Sarah Palin Lashes Out At Media, McCain Campaign And JournoList, Maybe 2010
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Anyway, all of this research and criticism apparently resulted in this listicle on Joe Klein's blog, which was generally regarded as a game-changing moment in the 2008 election.
Sarah Palin Lashes Out At Media, McCain Campaign And JournoList, Maybe 2010
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Anyway, all of this research and criticism apparently resulted in this listicle on Joe Klein's blog, which was generally regarded as a game-changing moment in the 2008 election.
Sarah Palin Lashes Out At Media, McCain Campaign And JournoList, Maybe 2010
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I'm sure nothing will wrong with these listicle-based counterterror plans!
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