plateau
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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
Global oil demand could plateau as this trend accelerates around the world.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 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
On average, people taking tirzepatide lose more weight than those taking semaglutide so it might take them longer to plateau.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
That evening, the seventy-fifth of our journey, our fifty-first day on the plateau, Harhahad Anner, we came down off the Gobrin Ice onto the sea-ice of Guthen Bay.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Vocabulary lists containing plateau
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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100 Great Words from "Fahrenheit 451" -- Part I Vocabulary
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