Unique ways to use the null coalescing operator [closed]

Answer 1

I like to use the null coalesce operator to lazy load certain properties.

A very simple (and contrived) example just to illustrate my point:

public class StackOverflow
{
    private IEnumerable _definitions;
    public IEnumerable Definitions
    {
        get
        {
            return _definitions ?? (
                _definitions = new List
                {
                    "definition 1",
                    "definition 2",
                    "definition 3"
                }
            );
        }
    } 
}