What are real world examples of when Linked Lists should be used?

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Another programmer was mentioning that they haven't found a use case for using a linked list data structure in any professional software in his career. I couldn't think of any good examples off the top of my head. He is mostly a C# and Java developer

Can anyone give some examples where this was the correct data structure to solve a particular real world problem?

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