cross section
Example Sentences
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The American middle class encompasses a broad cross section of workers that includes white-collar office employees, nurses and plumbers, although there is no universally accepted definition.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment demands a jury drawn from a representative cross section of the community.
From Slate • Oct. 23, 2025
The setting allows for a cross section of humanity, united in distress, and occasional passages of sociopolitical commentary.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
"By amplifying the fusion cross section, more power can be produced from the same amount of fuel," said Parisi.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024
Most of Wylan’s plans showed the Ice Court from above, but the prison elevation was a side view, a cross section showing the building’s floors stacked on top of one another.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
