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plateau

[pla-toh, plat-oh] / plæˈtoʊ, ˈplæt oʊ /
NOUN
level; flat, often high, land
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On the Aybasti plateau in the northeastern Ordu province, villagers turned out en masse earlier this month to protest plans to mine an area they use for farming.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

OpenAI’s, by some indications, has begun to plateau.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

“The market is experiencing more of a pricing plateau than a major correction,” said Rob Barber, chief executive of Attom.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026

The second site lies on the plateau above Juventae Chasma, a 5-km-deep canyon located just north of Valles Marineris.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

To Farmer, it wasn’t unlike the fate of Haitian peasants who left the central plateau and migrated to the slums of Port-au-Prince.

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




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