as in classified
to arrange or assign according to type
compartment the responses according to country of origin
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for compartmented
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The past flu season, which the CDC classified as highly severe for children, killed more than a hundred kids.—
Pien Huang,
NPR,
25 Mar. 2026 -
How it’s reassembled can depend on how it’s labeled and classified in the mind.—
Eric Boodman,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2026
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Nationally, the Charlotte area ranked 22 out of 387 for single year growth.—
John Marks,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Mar. 2026
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Consider their minor-league system was ranked 29th or a dead-last 30th by all baseball publications before Peter Bendix’s first season as president of baseball operations in 2024.—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2026
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But Gibbs hasn’t been relegated to the past and his name still comes up occasionally, including in the 500th episode case, though getting there for Binder was a journey.—
Jim Halterman,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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Her fitness-instructor character is stuck in the past, something that obviously hits close to home for Val, who is feeling especially tender after being relegated to the role of day player.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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It can also be planted with other shrubs to steal the spotlight, or grouped along other birds of paradise.—
Charlie Vargas,
Oc Register,
18 Mar. 2026
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Teams are then grouped by quad – Quad 1 teams are the best in the country, on down.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
12 Mar. 2026
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These are hand-me-down stories, delivered in a familiar fashion, distinguished by an expert sense of craft.—
Stephen Thomas Erlewine,
Pitchfork,
20 Mar. 2026
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The coat is distinguished by a single row of buttons and a slightly loose fit that offers ease and movement and an effortlessly polished finish.—
Andrea Zendejas,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2026
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Organizers have distributed petition sheets to more than 100 volunteers and are asking that those volunteers turn in their pages to a group leader by Sunday.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
24 Mar. 2026
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The international aid is usually distributed free of charge by the state through the network of stores that Cubans use to buy food, except in cases where a donor specifies that a shipment should have a specific destination, such as medicine for hospitals.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Having built and maintained a brick wall between his two worlds, Angelo has seamlessly juggled and compartmentalized for years.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
31 Dec. 2025
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With that, the trio of Joe, Nick and Kevin Jonas come swaggering and smiling from the wings, strolling to the tip of a catwalk together, the professional differences that splintered their brotherly union for a spell neatly compartmentalized for 2 ½-hours of polished pop digested by adoring fans.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Compartmented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/compartmented. Accessed 28 Mar. 2026.
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