as in chamber
one of the parts into which an enclosed space is divided
a backpack with many handy compartments for storing your camping gear
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as in to rank
to arrange or assign according to type
compartment the responses according to country of origin
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Recent Examples of compartment
Alan Gionet, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
Inside, the tote features a spacious main compartment and two pockets to help keep smaller items organized.
—Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
Next, use a mixture of warm water and dish soap to wipe down shelves, drawers, and compartments.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 4 Feb. 2026
Unscrew or slide the filter out of its compartment.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 4 Feb. 2026
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Noun
The tanker had four compartments containing fuel, and only one ruptured.
—Alan Gionet, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
Inside, the tote features a spacious main compartment and two pockets to help keep smaller items organized.
—Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
Next, use a mixture of warm water and dish soap to wipe down shelves, drawers, and compartments.
—Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 4 Feb. 2026
Unscrew or slide the filter out of its compartment.
—Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 4 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for compartment
Recent Examples of Synonyms for compartment
Noun
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Previous versions of the bill failed to gain traction in both chambers last year.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
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Theoretically, the plasmas collide in the fusion chamber and are compressed by magnets around the machine.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
13 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Chief Deputy Chris Ketteman, who ranks just below the sheriff, decides whether each complaint warrants an internal affairs investigation or can be handled by a supervisor.—
Matthew Cupelli,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
9 Feb. 2026
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His 42nd-minute strike was his second and Arsenal’s eighth league goal from outside the box this season, which ranks them third of the Premier League teams (behind Bournemouth’s 11 and Aston Villa’s 13) for that metric.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Noun
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After five days in frigid federal holding cells — where the family says the children slept under foil blankets on thin mats — they were transferred to Dilley, expecting to wait there for a couple weeks at most.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
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So, chocolate, orgasms, limerence, and heroin may all depend on the same little bundles of cells to evoke their fundamental sensation of pleasure.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
13 Feb. 2026
Verb
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The case is the first time the Justice Department has attempted to classify critical speech from prominent Trump detractors as a crime.—
Jeremy Roebuck,
Washington Post,
13 Feb. 2026
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Commercial prediction markets have resisted efforts by states to classify and regulate them as gambling companies, insisting that they — like their precursor in Iowa — should be overseen by federal regulators.—
Suzy Khimm,
NBC news,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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American is likewise revamping its wide-body planes with larger, single business-class cabins, putting in a three-class cabin on new Airbus narrow-bodies and expanding its airport lounges.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 2026
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Electrical cables on a high-speed line were also severed, and a fire was started at an electrical cabin in the Adriatic town of Pesaro, the railway network said.—
Antonia Mortensen,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Multiple chips are then grouped together to create FinalSpark’s Neuroplatform (aka.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Feb. 2026
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Assembling the Ni-Ti tubes into a working elastocaloric regenerator—a type of heat exchanger—involved grouping them into trios, and tightly fitting them into a strong plastic casing.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
5 Feb. 2026
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Inside that cube, researchers placed 32,768 points along every single edge.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Feb. 2026
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Bangladesh is the world’s second-largest apparel exporter and the ninth most climate-vulnerable country globally, placing it at the center of the fashion industry’s climate and labor challenges.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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He was later joined at OpenAI by his younger sister, Daniela, a humanities type partial to Joan Didion.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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This Google ad tells the love story of a foreign exchange student in Paris, showing search queries typed on a computer screen.—
Vogue,
Vogue,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Compartment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compartment. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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