compartmentalize
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The first lesson of 1901 is that speculative fever is hard to compartmentalize.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The ability to compartmentalize, a coping skill that is often learned young, can be beneficial.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
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
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
My parents thought of the divorce as trading one piece of paper for another, and I try to compartmentalize it in the same way.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
“He compartmentalizes it,” Van Scoyoc said of Betts’ past postseason failures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2024
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
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
In contrast, Mr. Driscoll warned lawmakers, “our software systems are compartmentalized, isolated and ineffective against modern threats.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The second feature is the nanoreactor's compartmentalized structure.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
The information is kept highly classified and intricately compartmentalized.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 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
I’ve had enough near misses that I now truly understand why the knowledge is compartmentalized so much.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
There has long been speculation that Graham’s capacity for compartmentalizing also extended to his personal life.
From Salon ● Jul. 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
“To me, compartmentalizing is when an individual exercises a healthy boundary, with intention, in service of a value they hold,” she explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Instead, Swart says, compartmentalizing can be both good and bad for you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 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
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