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- verb Present participle of
compartmentalize .
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Examples
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I make no secret that I use "compartmentalizing" as a coping mechanism.
Left Behind? No. Taking on My World Alone? Um, Yeah. - SpouseBUZZ 2008
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I had been kind of compartmentalizing it, kind of keeping it to myself, trying to figure it out, trying to handle it.
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Q: Ron, when you look at how you finished second in your career, are you at a point where you're kind of compartmentalizing the season into segments, how you want to start off, things you maybe want to try mid-season, trying to save it for the end, or are you pretty much going all out all the way through?
Motorsport.com: news 2009
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His body responded by "compartmentalizing" his legs, rushing fluid there in an attempt to heal them.
WORLDMag.com 2009
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His body responded by "compartmentalizing" his legs, rushing fluid there in an attempt to heal them.
WORLDMag.com 2009
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We've become so good at compartmentalizing our lives that we think our corporate selves are distinct from our private selves -- that who we are on the golf course has nothing to do with who we are at home, or that the persona we project in the board room ought to be different from the persona we project in the family room.
Jan Phillips: Leadership On The Edge Of A Quantum Leap Jan Phillips 2011
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We've become so good at compartmentalizing our lives that we think our corporate selves are distinct from our private selves -- that who we are on the golf course has nothing to do with who we are at home, or that the persona we project in the board room ought to be different from the persona we project in the family room.
Jan Phillips: Leadership On The Edge Of A Quantum Leap Jan Phillips 2011
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"I had spent the past four years at this elite institution, compartmentalizing a painful truth, and I knew that when I graduated I would be confronted with my harsh reality yet again."
Liane Membis: Life After Yale: Undocumented Liane Membis 2011
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Elizabeth Smart has a remarkably mature outlook on this set of issues and compartmentalizing her responsibility to herself and to society at large:
Reader poll: Send Roman Polanski to prison? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I am a liberal environmentalist downtown non-profit type (since we're completely compartmentalizing voters here) and I think you're wrong, Josh.
Guess What, Establishment. McGinn is the New Licata. Except, He’s the Mayor. « PubliCola 2010
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