cross section

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A broader cross section of thousands of fund returns make up commonly used performance indexes published by Cambridge Associates and MSCI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment demands a jury drawn from a representative cross section of the community.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2025

“Hopefully our country can get back to that. The Owens Valley, and Inyo County in particular, is a perfect cross section of America.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2024

“These days we’ve got a truly diverse cross section of South Africa coming to the event, all ages, races, and genders,” says rAge project director, Michael James.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024

The subjects were chosen from across the country to represent an accurate cross section of American schoolchildren.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt