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plateau

[pla-toh, plat-oh] / plæˈtoʊ, ˈplæt oʊ /
NOUN
level; flat, often high, land
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Tibetans view swaths of China as their homeland, including the county of Kardze in Sichuan province on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau where Lobga was born.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

The waves were recorded by ocean bottom seismometers positioned around the plateau and by instruments installed on nearby oceanic islands.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

Jacob had a meteoric climb from being an unranked university student in 2024 to the world's top 50 a year later - but he has recently hit a plateau.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

One day the pioneers who had planted the first trees on the windswept coastal plateau discovered huge gashes in the rich vegetation.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Yet he was never going to level the playing field by working only in the central plateau, or in Tomsk, or in Lima.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

At CERAWeek, ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance said providing new oil supply as shale plateaus is one of the industry’s big challenges.

From Barron's Mar. 28, 2026

Not with another four years on his contract, a current buyout price of $22.5 million and now a not-terrible finish to this strange season of all peaks and valleys and no plateaus.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 8, 2026

“Free cash flow per share grows even as revenue plateaus or declines slightly. The companies that execute this transition well are going to emerge as leaner, more profitable versions of themselves,” he says.

From MarketWatch Feb. 25, 2026

The experiment revealed Shapiro steps, which are distinct voltage plateaus that appear at multiples of a driving frequency, just as they do in superconducting devices.

From Science Daily Dec. 23, 2025

A thick, dark green forest of oak and pine crowned pink-orange sand-rock plateaus that extended north and south beyond Nathan’s vision.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Connecting the realms, Martine sells crepes in the summer to members of the communes, who venture down from their fields and plateaux for this staple of French cuisine.

From BBC Dec. 16, 2023

Currently, it expects wage growth to plateaux around 3.9% late next year and into 2024.

From Reuters Nov. 16, 2022

As to the poets who made it into Dear World, there are predictable highs, plateaux and crescendi.

From The Guardian Apr. 12, 2013

But with the new edition opening to just $21.5 million — less than either of the previous sequels, in real or inflated dollars — it will have trouble reaching those plateaux.

From Time Apr. 8, 2012

Further on are the mountains of Armenia, and the ark of Noah on one of its plateaux.

From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake

It made sense for his family at the time because his wife’s business was growing, while he felt his career in content marketing had plateaued.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

And that has happened even as Tesla's car production numbers have plateaued.

From BBC Jun. 8, 2026

Subscriber growth at bigger Hollywood streaming services has largely plateaued in the past year, and some have stopped disclosing numbers.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Chinese tech giant Huawei's revenue growth slowed last year, its annual report showed Tuesday, as sales of the company's consumer devices plateaued against a backdrop of sluggish domestic consumption.

From Barron's Mar. 31, 2026

My stock plummeted, and by high school, it plateaued.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

The argument wasn’t anything new, and it certainly wasn’t influenced by plateauing sales or consumer complaints.

From Salon Jun. 14, 2026

With repetition, they got faster until plateauing, which he thinks was when the sorting task became automated.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

With pandemic-era stimulus initiatives long forgotten, home prices plateauing, and investor portfolios pointing down, consumer sentiment has little reason to improve.

From Barron's Apr. 2, 2026

Interest in EVs could be plateauing in California, experts said, where adoption rates are higher than the rest of the country.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 2025

"In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we've actually seen, to some extent, a plateauing in the number of mpox cases, but collectively, it still is a very significantly affected country globally," he said.

From BBC Nov. 22, 2024




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