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plateau

[pla-toh, plat-oh] / plæˈtoʊ, ˈplæt oʊ /
NOUN
level; flat, often high, land
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Either way, analysts now expect global demand for seaborne coal to increase this year, rather than plateau.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Crucially, eloralintide provides an alternative for patients who struggle to tolerate GLP-1 side effects or have reached a plateau with existing treatment.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

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

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

The captain was stationed with eight American soldiers in Haiti’s rural central plateau, charged with keeping the peace for 150,000 Haitians, mostly peasants, spread over a thousand square miles.

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




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