compartmentalize

Alma wants this thing so f*cking badly, and so much of that has been predicated on being able to compartmentalize and being able to not look at certain things from her past.

Her generation was inculcated to cozy up to men in power and treat younger women like competition or pets; she keeps her conscience as compartmentalized as a box of fishing tackle.

“There were so many doors,” he said of the compartmentalized floor plan.

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

The compartmentalized containers have been popularized on social media.