COMPARTMENTALIZING Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

compartmentalizing

verb

present participle of compartmentalize

as in classifying

to arrange or assign according to type we shouldn't compartmentalize the students into such restrictive categories as scholar and athlete, which are not mutually exclusive

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Recent Examples of compartmentalizing And even though Skubal excels at compartmentalizing, Roberts had one request for the Tigers. — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026 The part that’s hard for me is actually not being in that space and compartmentalizing it. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 6 June 2026 The duality applies to the whole team, which has seemingly mastered compartmentalizing its fun side and its serious side, tapping into one personality or the other on command. — Haley Sawyer, Daily News, 28 Mar. 2026 The premise isn’t without its intriguing ideas, too, like how dating-app technology has had a broader compartmentalizing effect on monogamous relationships in general. — Andy Andersen, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2026 Also, this team had been good all season at compartmentalizing and being unmoved by things outside their control. — Dianna Russini, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2026 But Knife is careful to avoid giving the assailant too much space in the narrative, as if compartmentalizing his role was somehow a necessary part of the writer’s rehabilitation. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 25 Jan. 2026 But a different kind of compartmentalizing going on, yeah. — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025 Instead of compartmentalizing passion and profession, some workers are finding that one can meaningfully enhance the other. — Michael Hansen, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025

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The following conversation touches on Rock's latest project and process, writing young characters and classifying his own work into a genre.

— Zachary Fletcher, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
Edwards and Magee spent decades classifying them, and the most important distinction is between a breakaway gap and everything else.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of classifying

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Lynn replaced Alex Grinch, who was fired before finishing his second season leading a defense that was porous and poor, ranking as the 94th and 121st most generous defense in the nation in 2022 and ’23, respectively.

— Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
The two classics appear together on five Billboard charts and sit side-by-side on the Top Hard Rock Albums ranking, while 'Papercuts' gives the band a third entry on that tally.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of ranking

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In recent years, white supremacists have embraced the concept of lactose intolerance as a distinguishing debility of nonwhite people.

— Hilary Smith, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
The app offers a free entry-level service, while distinguishing itself with an option for 3-D modeling of a client’s cellar, starting at $1,500 to $5,000.

— Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of distinguishing

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But Shanes questioned whether grouping Jews under a single ethnic category would produce sufficiently specific data for those purposes, or instead obscure differences among Jewish populations with distinct ancestries.

— Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026
This time around, however, the tech giant is establishing parameters on mass arbitration by grouping them in batches of 25, 100, and 500, depending on the total number of claimants with similar issues.

— Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of grouping

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With Belton’s regression and weaknesses in pass protection relegating him to the backup right tackle, the starting right guard spot seems to be a competition between Jacob Monk (currently leading) and Burton.

— Matt Schneidman, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
As cognitive psychologist Ronald Kellogg noted in a new essay for New York Times, students are heavily relegating cognitive tasks to AI tools, effectively losing the ability to think.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of relegating

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Set within its own natural lagoon on the southernmost tip of the Raa Atoll, the ocean stretches out as far as the eye can see, with hardly a blip separating sea, horizon, and sky.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2026
A couple years before that, the state began disaggregating data on Asian and Pacific Islanders, by separating Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander groups.

— Sharon Udasin, Sun Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of separating

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Four Russian glide bombs destroyed a sorting center belonging to the postal service Nova Poshta in the northern Sumy region, and a drone smashed one of its depots in the Kyiv region, the company said.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Humans use algorithms too, not just to solve math problems, but also for tasks like sorting items.

— Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026

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