representative cross section
Frequency: 8.520.1 per million words
accurately reflecting the typical characteristics of the whole group
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- The survey aims to poll a representative cross section of the voting population.
- For the trial to be fair, the jury must be a representative cross section of the community.
- Our focus group included a representative cross section of consumers from different age groups.
- The new admissions policy aims to create a more representative cross section of society in our student body.
- Researchers selected a representative cross section of patients for the clinical study.
- The attendees at the meeting did not form a representative cross section of the company's workforce.
- Polling companies strive to interview a representative cross section to ensure their predictions are accurate.
- This anthology provides a representative cross section of 20th-century American poetry.
- To foster innovation, the project team was built from a representative cross section of different departments.
- It is statistically difficult to obtain a truly representative cross section of the global population.