compartmentalize
verb (used with object)
to divide into separate and isolated categories, sections, areas, or compartments.
is compartmentalizing
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present progressiveof compartmentalize (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Among Grey’s talents, we learn, is compartmentalizing certain things, such as his twenty-four-year marriage to the actress Jo Wilder, which produced two children, including the “Dirty Dancing” star Jennifer Grey.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 24, 2016
