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Linked lists are best suited to dynamic collections where random access is not a major concern, such as queues and stacks. Using an array would prove highly inefficient in these cases due to the need to resize the array to accommodate new elements or to remove unused elements. Occasionally, an increase in size will require the entire array be copied to a larger block of free memory. Linked lists don't have this problem as memory is allocated and de-allocated on a per element basis.

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