plateau

Example Sentences

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They found a steady rise from 2015 through 2019, followed by a plateau from 2020 to 2024, and then a sharp surge in 2025.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

There is little privacy, it is miles out into the volcanic grasslands of the plateau, it did not allow pets.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

Naturalist Stephen Boyes believes massive elephants live undetected on a remote plateau in Angola; they’d be descendants of a giant pachyderm hunted and killed 70 years ago that now resides in the Smithsonian.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

Weight loss continued through the end of the treatment period without a plateau, Eli Lilly said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

I pressed myself against the base of the plateau and quieted my heaving breaths.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri