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plateau

[pla-toh, plat-oh] / plæˈtoʊ, ˈplæt oʊ /
NOUN
level; flat, often high, land
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But Chatfield eventually hit a spiritual plateau that organized religion couldn’t fill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The pair saw the quality of smartphone cameras reaching a plateau and wanted to find a novel way to improve them, using both hardware and software.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

But if life expectancy has truly reached a plateau, therapies aimed at the biology of aging itself could become one of the paths scientists explore in an effort to push that limit higher.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

The rocky terrain of the Bundelkhand plateau means it can store little groundwater.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Père Lafontant—père is the French word for “father” or “priest”—was a small but imposing man with a forceful manner, especially when he spoke of life in the central plateau.

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

Scientists also believe this type of cAMP modulation might eventually help people overcome the weight loss plateaus commonly reported with GLP-1 drugs.

From Science Daily ● May 25, 2026

Multiple employees were perfecting the already-perfect plateaus of bell peppers and apples in the produce section.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026

At CERAWeek, ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance said providing new oil supply as shale plateaus is one of the industry’s big challenges.

From Barron's ● Mar. 28, 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

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

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

As to the poets who made it into Dear World, there are predictable highs, plateaux and crescendi.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2013

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

Behind them lay the desert maze, to the right and left, mountain ranges, high plateaux, mesas and buttes.

From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Frank Gee Patchin

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

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

With pandemic-era stimulus initiatives long forgotten, home prices plateauing, and investor portfolios pointing down, consumer sentiment has little reason to improve.

From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026

At the same time, demand for electric vehicles is plateauing as the market gets saturated, Brauer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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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