compartmentalize
Example Sentences
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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
We compartmentalize this grief and outrage into the corners of our private lives.
From Salon • Sep. 20, 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
Afraid she wouldn't recover, he wasn't able to compartmentalize to do his job well.
From Salon • Aug. 10, 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
Vocabulary lists containing compartmentalize
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