plateau
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Both Po and So waves traveled significantly more slowly beneath the plateau.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
Jacob had a meteoric climb from being an unranked university student in 2024 to the world's top 50 a year later - but he has recently hit a plateau.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Now the equestrian world might be hitting a plateau: exact genetic replicas of successful horses and ponies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
It’s no secret that vinyl records’ resurgence has hit a new plateau, outselling CDs for the first time since 1987 as of 2022, according to a report from the Recording Industry Assn. of America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
At the far end of the plateau boys had climbed into the trees.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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Not with another four years on his contract, a current buyout price of $22.5 million and now a not-terrible finish to this strange season of all peaks and valleys and no plateaus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 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
Tesla’s stock revalues and sits at new plateaus every time it achieves one of its big goals, such as launching the best-selling car, electric or otherwise, in the world, an achievement of Tesla’s Model Y.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
As we passed the high plateaus and rounded the last cliffside into the open country, we spied a massive caravan—three hundred camels deep—a moving village riding toward us.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
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 decision in question is the return of cattle to portions of the 646,000-hectare park, a landscape of deep ravines, high plateaux and snow gum trees.
From Nature ● Mar. 23, 2011
Peru and Colombia, though geographically within the tropics, have extensive temperate plateaux.
From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard
It made sense for his family at the time because his wife’s business was growing, while he felt his career in content marketing had plateaued.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
The stock rallied from late 2023 to early 2025, but has plateaued since because investors are worried about how long the momentum could last.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
And that has happened even as Tesla's car production numbers have plateaued.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
U.S. print-book sales plateaued in 2025, according to the book tracker Circana BookScan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
My stock plummeted, and by high school, it plateaued.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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The argument wasn’t anything new, and it certainly wasn’t influenced by plateauing sales or consumer complaints.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
At the same time, American production growth—a key shock absorber for high prices after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—appears to be plateauing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
We see North America demand plateauing, but global demand for refined products continuing to rise 1-2% a year.
From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026
Tesla shares have fallen more than 16% this year following a series of setbacks for the company, including brand damage and plateauing interest in electric vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
After plateauing for a while, it continued to fall, reaching a low point in mid-2013 that was 35% down from its highest.
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
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