plateau
Example Sentences
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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
It has been a bumpy road for the electric vehicle market as declining federal support and plateauing public interest have eaten away at sales.
From Los Angeles Times
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
Specialists from Charmouth and Weymouth fire stations were then summoned to help lower the dog owner down to the wide plateau.
From BBC
These flat regions, known as plateaus, turned out to be universal.
From Science Daily
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