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compartmentalize

[kuhm-pahrt-men-tl-ahyz, kom-pahrt-] / kəm pɑrtˈmɛn tlˌaɪz, ˌkɒm pɑrt- /


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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

Marianne can only compartmentalize so much when there are dread-filled visuals that accompany the information she’s relaying.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2024

“I compartmentalize the way the city looked at one time,” he says, which, when he moved here in the 1950s, was like “some kind of antique village.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

Professors collaborated with the directors of the campus art museum and instructors in the social sciences and business departments, to demonstrate that knowledge is impossible to segregate or compartmentalize.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2024

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




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