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- noun One who
compartmentalizes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This might be an artificial category, but I'm a compartmentalizer, and when I think of writers who have put out both a recent novel and collection that are bought top-shelf, I think of Tamar Yellin with her The Genizah at the House of Shepher and Kafka in Bronteland.
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The theory that Mr. Woods was a cold - blooded compartmentalizer whose game would be immune to his personal crisis?
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Instead it portrays Kennedy as a mean, selfish and not-very-sexy compartmentalizer.
And Before Bill, There was Jack: Jed Mercurio's American Adulterer Tenured Radical 2009
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Instead it portrays Kennedy as a mean, selfish and not-very-sexy compartmentalizer.
Archive 2009-07-01 Tenured Radical 2009
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I guess it helps that I've always been a compartmentalizer, but it's still a challenge.
partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2003
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This might be an artificial category, but I'm a compartmentalizer, and when I think of writers who have put out both a recent novel and collection that are bought top-shelf, I think of
SF Signal 2009
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Up in the Air examines the bittersweet life of Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), who fires people for a living, gliding through hotels and airports in a cushy, emotion-free existence, until an affair with a fellow compartmentalizer, Alex (Vera Farmiga), makes him realize how lonely he is.
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"Having a stable family life is very nice," he says, "but I can work under unstable conditions, too, because — this is not a skill, this is probably a shortcoming — I'm a compartmentalizer.
Reconstructing Woody Peter Biskind 2005
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"Having a stable family life is very nice," he says, "but I can work under unstable conditions, too, because — this is not a skill, this is probably a shortcoming — I'm a compartmentalizer.
Reconstructing Woody Peter Biskind 2005
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“Having a stable family life is very nice,” he says, “but I can work under unstable conditions, too, because — this is not a skill, this is probably a shortcoming — I’m a compartmentalizer.
Reconstructing Woody Biskind, Peter 2005
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