I've been noticing that more often recently in text -- using semicolons to separate list items when one or more of the list items has a comma. I know that's be

I've been noticing that more often recently in text -- using semicolons to separate list items when one or more of the list items has a comma. I know that's been a technically correct usage of the semicolon for a while now, but I've never actually seen it in mainstream news/marketing until in the past few months.