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compartmentalising

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  • verb Present participle of compartmentalise.

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Examples

  • Capello's role will be to ensure, that once ensconced inside England's training base near Watford, the two defenders prove capable of "compartmentalising" their lives.

    The Guardian World News Louise Taylor 2010

  • "We're particularly fond of compartmentalising the arts in Britain," says Wheeler.

    When pop meets Prokofiev 2011

  • This was strictly a weekend activity, to distract me from the weekday stress cycle: compartmentalising my life helped me deal with Datacash.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The grim task of going through cases like this has not taken a toll, she says, because she is very good at compartmentalising.

    Rapes, murders – and one sleepless night: the life of a criminal prosecutor 2012

  • But Murray long ago discovered the trick of compartmentalising his emotions.

    Andy Murray shrugs off French failure and looks to green grass of home 2010

  • Its not dementia – least, I doubt it – but it is the impact of our compartmentalising our brains to do things in a certain way.

    Meltdown « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008

  • Corporate communications professionals can forget the idea of compartmentalising messages for different sectors of the market.

    Armchair hysteria « Squash 2006

  • I personally find it disturbing to see the kind of property rights regime that the world is getting into, compartmentalising our tangible and intangible resources into territories and then passing them down to our progenies and excluding others.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Religions have returned to their primary function of castigating, compartmentalising and belittling outsiders and reinforcing the tribal loyalty of their adherents.

    Archive 2008-09-01 David Hadley 2008

  • I personally find it disturbing to see the kind of property rights regime that the world is getting into, compartmentalising our tangible and intangible resources into territories and then passing them down to our progenies and excluding others.

    The Metro and the Matrimandir Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

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