compartmented

Definition of compartmentednext
past tense of compartment
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Verb
  • Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor, the Metropolitan Police’s counterterrorism chief, said the attack has been officially classified as terrorism as investigators work to determine the motive and whether the Jewish community was deliberately targeted.
    Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Treasurer Richard Cain allegedly searched for donations that had been classified as restricted to certain purposes but could be reclassified as unrestricted, without consulting with the finance committee or auditors.
    Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • In 2023, the Rangers ranked second in all of Major League Baseball with 143 home runs, and second in OPS.
    Mac Engel April 30, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Earlier this month, live coverage of the men’s final in Monte Carlo between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz ranked among the top three sports broadcasts in its time period.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • They may even still get relegated.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • Qualifying for the Champions League could boost revenue by a few hundred million; being relegated could cost a team an equal (or much greater) amount.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 30 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The results are grouped by geographic region, casting a cohesive portrait of what state-of-the-art hospitality looks like around the world today.
    Asa Canty, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2026
  • To see if a study considered gender, the paper grouped together several different kinds of analyses.
    Anil Oza, STAT, 27 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Cannabis is the umbrella term for the plant genus that includes both marijuana and hemp – two varieties of the same plant distinguished primarily by their content of THC, one of the active components of cannabis.
    Carey S. Cadieux, The Conversation, 29 Apr. 2026
  • This series has been distinguished by its intimacy, which comes with having access to the house in which Heuermann lived (and killed), and on-camera interviews with his ex-wife (who divorced Heuermann following his arrest) and his daughter.
    Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • How to best address the cross-border problem of whose rules apply when validators, liquidity providers, and end users are globally distributed?
    Bob Diamond, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Torres-Ortiz allegedly collected the packages and took them to secondary locations where Edgar Castro Perez and Arroyo-Robles allegedly stored them until the cocaine was distributed further, federal officials claimed.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • 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 4 May. 2026.

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