compartmentalize

So I stopped trying to be my whole self everywhere, and gave myself permission to prioritize and compartmentalize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Then, when she’s forced to look at it, she’s unable to because of how hard she’s worked to compartmentalize.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2025

We compartmentalize this grief and outrage into the corners of our private lives.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2025

Have you figured out how to compartmentalize what you do with System of a Down and Scars on Broadway?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025

I’d been trained my entire life to compartmentalize, to give my entire focus to the situation at hand, and I leaned hard on the habits developed from years and years of study and work.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Whenever Casserly goes on TV, he said, he compartmentalizes his different jobs.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2019

She walks out of the living room when her brother compartmentalizes her legal battle and watches the Saints on television.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2019

He’s said that he compartmentalizes, so that if he’s with you, he’s just Dennis.

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2019

There’s nothing necessarily wrong with a movie that compartmentalizes its emotions and dishes them out like stocking stuffers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2016

The guide compartmentalizes U.S. history into 10 eras, from the beginnings until 1620 to contemporary $ America, and proposes two to four "standards" of what students should know about each period.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, from the very beginning, the law compartmentalized requirements of parental involvement in some contexts and inconsistently applied those requirements in others.

From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2026

At the system level, hardware needs to be compartmentalized by dividing business data into different groups, granting users specific access based on their roles and adding a layer of protection to the information.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 20, 2026

Will’s objections, based on his past writings, may be more aesthetic than principled, the product of a neatly compartmentalized mind.

From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2025

With everybody else, their self gets compartmentalized, which I think we do in life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2024

As I had in the past, I completely compartmentalized my life and prioritized fencing above all else.

From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad

There has long been speculation that Graham’s capacity for compartmentalizing also extended to his personal life.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

That compartmentalizing and focus they learned on the field, he said, “that gives you opportunity to keep on fighting for the real life stuff.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

But by compartmentalizing and integrating digital screens to show their inventory—rather than the rows of products—machines can offer about twice as many items.

From Slate ● Feb. 1, 2025

Recent research has shown that closing your home’s garage door and all interior doors could ease the high winds somewhat by compartmentalizing them, according to Smith.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2024

Barack, who’s always been good at compartmentalizing, managed to be admirably present and undistracted when he was with us.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama