compartmentalize

Waldorf’s job, treating critical patients in the intensive care unit, had taught her to compartmentalize, to stay cool under pressure.

From Salon ● May 27, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2025

It’s another thing to depict accurately the emotional toll, stresses, the need to juggle, compartmentalize, to code switch and do everything else that is asked of these people over the course of the day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 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

Lynskey: I think something the writers and I were really on the same page about is how much she compartmentalizes and how much she refuses to deal with and refuses to look at.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

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

From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2019

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

From Slate ● Feb. 12, 2019

“John really compartmentalizes his two lives,” said Henry Tyndorf, the school principal.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2013

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

The second feature is the nanoreactor's compartmentalized structure.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

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

The task force kept the investigation carefully compartmentalized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2025

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

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

Healthy compartmentalization involves regulating your emotions while unhealthy compartmentalizing means repressing them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024

“At the end of the day, I have always been pretty good about compartmentalizing and being able to stay focused in this building, so I’m just going to keep rolling with that.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2023

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