compartment
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In January 2025 an Air Busan plane was destroyed on the tarmac in Gimhae Airport in South Korea, with investigators concluding a power bank battery pack left in an overhead luggage compartment was the culprit.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Each seat has its own overhead luggage compartment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The weathered thread compartment holds two toy horses with armed riders in red coats.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
To break down these fatty acids, plant cells use a specialized structure known as the peroxisome, a membrane-bound compartment also found in human cells.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
Headmarveller MacDonald scooped up the bead with a metal instrument and jammed it into the machine's compartment.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Inside, TV screens replaced the overhead luggage compartments, and a strip of lights lined the carriages’ walls from front to back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The second discovery involved paraspeckles, small droplet-like compartments located inside the cell nucleus.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Take, for example, the viral “snackle box,” which contains multiple compartments to hold everything from your favorite packaged snacks and candies to cut up fruit and vegetables.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
These frozen meals were arranged in heat-and-serve aluminum trays with three compartments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
At night, they descended to their respective compartments.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing compartment
"Modern Automotive Technology," Vocabulary from Section 6
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ment
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