compartmentalize

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compartmentalize (something) into (something)

To separate something into different parts or categories. We'll use cubicles to compartmentalize the office into smaller workspaces.
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compartmentalize something into something

to segment or divide something into smaller things; to assign the parts of something into categories. We will have to compartmentalize this large area into a number of smaller offices. His brain seems to be compartmentalized into a number of different centers.
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women have grown accustomed to compartmentalizing ourselves into a whole host of personas which we occupy simultaneously."
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Certainly, in their efforts to integrate their religious understandings into every aspect of their lives, these fundamentalists, the editors note, resist the "compartmentalizing tendencies of the modern social sciences" (p.
Fundamentalisms Observed: The Fundamentalism Project, vol 1
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