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Recent Examples of compartmentalize Traditional AVs compartmentalize perception, prediction and planning into separate modules. Xingjian "xj" Zhang, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025 Indie execs will have to compartmentalize to get much done, and the deals might take longer than usual. Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025 The downside, warn many of the officials who appear in Disclosure, is that keeping this information secret and compartmentalized within the government and the military industrial complex could result in an intelligence failure exponentially worse than what happened with 9/11. Johnny Dodd, People.com, 8 Mar. 2025 Rickards said Burke ultimately found her strength by compartmentalizing Wolfe's violence and her professional wrestling dreams. A Martínez, NPR, 7 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for compartmentalize
Recent Examples of Synonyms for compartmentalize
Verb
  • The curriculum guides middle school students and teachers through building and evaluating computer vision models that can reliably classify fossil shark teeth.
    Christine Wusylko, The Conversation, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Kathleen Kelley Reardon, an expert on organizational politics, classifies political environments from minimally to pathologically politicized.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Last year, Boise was ranked No. 77, and the year prior it was ranked No. 50.
    Ashley Fredde, Idaho Statesman, 20 Apr. 2025
  • In a survey of more than 15,000 users after its rollout in 2024, 90% of respondents ranked their experience as excellent or above average.
    Rachel Barber, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Each, in its own way, invited a friendly skepticism of orthodoxy and imbued value in people and ideas previously relegated to the edge.
    Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2025
  • What’s worse is that the mouth is sometimes treated as a separate entity from the rest of the body, relegated to the care of dentists, and often excluded from broader discussions about systemic health.
    Chris Gallagher, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Israeli strikes across Gaza continued, killing at least 21 people in the last 24 hours, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants but says most of the more than 50,000 Palestinians killed in the war have been women and children.
    Sam Mednick and Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2025
  • At least 26 people have been killed and more than 100 others wounded in the last 24 hours, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which doesn't distinguish between civilians and combatants.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The recall is categorized as class 3, which is the least serious category and means that exposure to the product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences, according to the FDA.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Biologists of many different subdisciplines categorize life in a field called systematics.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Since our family has been separated, I have been devastated and confused.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Heading into final rotation, the two championship hopefuls were separated by just 0.075.
    Henry Chappell, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Compartmentalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compartmentalize. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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