plateau
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The pair saw the quality of smartphone cameras reaching a plateau and wanted to find a novel way to improve them, using both hardware and software.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The northwestern part of Motte Rimrock Reserve, a biological field station on a rocky plateau managed by UC Riverside, also falls in an evacuation warning zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The rocky terrain of the Bundelkhand plateau means it can store little groundwater.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
Across the plateau, Sigurd shoved Dobrynya away and heaved himself to his feet.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
Multiple employees were perfecting the already-perfect plateaus of bell peppers and apples in the produce section.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
There are strange choices, plateaus and unnecessary dramas, but now there is a mettle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
These flat regions, known as plateaus, turned out to be universal.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 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
She nods and stares across the far side of the lake, to the distant icy mountains where the water pours over the plateaus.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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
The great mountain chains and elevated plateaux are of ancient origin, however, and in them granite and other crystalline rocks are largely represented.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
And that has happened even as Tesla's car production numbers have plateaued.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
But revenue plateaued, and the convention pipeline was a little softer, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
U.S. print-book sales plateaued in 2025, according to the book tracker Circana BookScan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 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
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Additionally, BT is shifting from a phase of decline to one of stabilization as Openreach line losses seem to be plateauing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
The argument wasn’t anything new, and it certainly wasn’t influenced by plateauing sales or consumer complaints.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
Ember is confident that emissions from using fossil fuels to generate electricity are now plateauing and could begin a permanent decline in a few years.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
The previously maligned ADP gauge has confirmed the plateauing of payrolls outside the government sector.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
The elimination of the credits is expected to further stunt EV sales that have already slowed amid plateauing interest in California and steep auto tariffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025
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