They acted on an FBI composite profile of a possible killer.
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The overlap of the composite profiles defines common perspectives.
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The composite profiles of groups are overlaid.
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Such information can be aggregated into huge direct-marketing databases, creating a composite profile of an individual Web-surfer's habits, often without his knowledge.
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Airline executives are frustrated by delays and by the random security searches of four-year-olds and grandmothers, people who do not fit the composite profile of a terrorist.
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Commentator David Frum has said, perhaps partly tongue-in-cheek, that Washington officials can learn something about the way Washington works from Woodward's books : " From his books, you can draw a composite profile of the powerful Washington player.