plateau
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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
In back of the plateau were the mountains, and every way you looked there were other mountains, and ahead the road stretched out white across the plain going toward Pamplona.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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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