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Clickbait meaning

Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines.

Using Clickbait

  • The main meaning on this page is: Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines.
  • In the example corpus, clickbait often appears in combinations such as: clickbait and, clickbait title, clickbait headline.

Context around Clickbait

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

misleading 1× perfected 1× veued 1× internet 1× pure 1× combat 1× ridiculous 1× old 1× understand 1× online 1×

Often after:

title 3× continues 1× champagne 1× titles 1× headline 1× celebrate 1× article 1×

Sentence patterns with Clickbait

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

always be clickbait in the 1× are just clickbait 1× as clickbait continues to 1× be pure clickbait 1× becomes internet clickbait with tiktokkers 1× bites and clickbait the tension 1× by veued clickbait champagne 1× claims are clickbait or fake 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

argylle s trailer 1× as clickbait continues 1× as you browse 1× but pugh who 1× details at 11 1× ffs reading two 1×

Common sentence endings:

are just clickbait 1× at the situation 1× be pure clickbait 1× clickbait it is 1× clickbait or fake 1× from online clickbait 1×

Words around Clickbait

Just before it in the word index:

clickable 22 click 2.187 clichy 4 cliches 50 cliche 99 clic 6

Just after it in the word index:

clicked 246 clicker 6 clickers 9 clickhole 2 clickiness 3 clicking 445

Similar in corpus frequency:

adjoint 50 affixes 50 agonisingly 50 ahn 50 ainsworth 50 airdrop 50

Corpus analysis for Clickbait

  • In this selection, "clickbait" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, misleading, perfected, veued, title, continues and champagne stand out and add context to how "clickbait" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include always be clickbait in the and are just clickbait. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "clickbait" sits close to words such as adjoint, affixes and agonisingly, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with clickbait

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The retiree headline is clickbait. (5 words)

Argylle's trailer and poster turned out to be pure clickbait. (11 words)

But most of the links and claims are clickbait or fake. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

As you browse the sections, you can opt to improve the titles of news posts using AI — a feature designed to help combat clickbait titles — as well as tap on the “Smart Summary” option to have a ChatGPT-style quick summary of the article’s main points. (47 words)

As clickbait continues to influence our reading habits, sometimes stories are blown out of proportion, and with local newspapers in the U.S. closing, it’s a ripe news environment to get completely lost and manic at the situation. (39 words)

When Grace's disappearance makes it to the news, everything about her case quickly becomes internet clickbait, with TikTokkers and Gen Z true-crime aficionados digging into Grace's past and finding out that she has something to hide. (39 words)

Question examples

I understand clickbait and all, but shouldn't Huffington Post at least have some fuzzy pictures, or sideboobs? (18 words)

Example sentences (20)

Okay, this is looks like a clickbait title, but I maintain that a clickbait title is one that doesn’t deliver on all the enticing possibilities that the headline suggest but honestly, that is not the case.

As clickbait continues to influence our reading habits, sometimes stories are blown out of proportion, and with local newspapers in the U.S. closing, it’s a ripe news environment to get completely lost and manic at the situation.

But Pugh, who is dashing, with sharp cheekbones and a sweep of silver hair, like a telegenic actor who has been cast to play Lewis Pugh in a biopic, insists that these achievements are just clickbait.

One dead following Sunday morning Carp Road crash (published Nov. 26, 333 pageviews): Emergency news will always be clickbait in the world of community journalism.

Seeking Alpha editors should remove the misleading clickbait title of this very lightweight article, it degrades the site quality.

The British tabloids are notoriously aggressive publications that perfected clickbait before the invention of the internet; their perverse insults and wild accusations could easily match the “mean girl” tweets of Former President Donald Trump.

The cocktail was seemingly procured from a private source, as the whole event was exclusively sponsored by six different private-jet companies, all of which are sponsored by Veued Clickbait champagne.

When Grace's disappearance makes it to the news, everything about her case quickly becomes internet clickbait, with TikTokkers and Gen Z true-crime aficionados digging into Grace's past and finding out that she has something to hide.

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Argylle's trailer and poster turned out to be pure clickbait.

As you browse the sections, you can opt to improve the titles of news posts using AI — a feature designed to help combat clickbait titles — as well as tap on the “Smart Summary” option to have a ChatGPT-style quick summary of the article’s main points.

But most of the links and claims are clickbait or fake.

Details at 11 and unending opinions offered on various corporate and social media platforms ad nauseam — as long as you respond to the clickbait.

FFS, reading two sentences in makes that headline out to be the ridiculous clickbait it is.

Sorry for using that tired old clickbait headline, but in a roundabout way, it’s true.

The retiree headline is clickbait.

The soulful shouts of front woman Sandra Yau give extra depth to the record’s spunky, funky songs, and Clickbait celebrate the LP by headlining the Empty Bottle on Monday, August 5, to cap their first tour.

Whenever I'm about to waste my time on some clickbait article, this Jenga stack of pop-ups shows up, and I go away.

In our culture of 24-hour news, sound bites, and clickbait, the tension between the fast-paced events of the day and the laborious strides of the judicial system is heightened even further.

I understand clickbait and all, but shouldn't Huffington Post at least have some fuzzy pictures, or sideboobs?

The Balkans was already a hive of misinformation, fueled by Russian-backed groups and tricksters looking to make a buck from online clickbait.

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Common combinations with clickbait

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "clickbait" in a sentence?
An example: "Okay, this is looks like a clickbait title, but I maintain that a clickbait title is one that doesn’t deliver on all the enticing possibilities that the headline suggest but honestly, that is not the case." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "clickbait" from authentic English texts.
What does "clickbait" mean?
Clickbait means: Website content that is aimed at generating advertising revenue, especially at the expense of quality or accuracy, relying on sensationalist headlines to attract click-throughs; such headlines.
How many example sentences with "clickbait" are there?
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