plateau
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The northwestern part of Motte Rimrock Reserve, a biological field station on a rocky plateau managed by UC Riverside, also falls in an evacuation warning zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
The rocky terrain of the Bundelkhand plateau means it can store little groundwater.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Tibetans view swaths of China as their homeland, including the county of Kardze in Sichuan province on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau where Lobga was born.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Children in effect undergo a body composition reset at the plateau around age 4 years, which prepares them for the growth stages after that age," he explains.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
For the other eight months he returned to the central plateau of Haiti, doctoring impoverished patients, many of whom had lost their land to a government hydroelectric dam project.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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Oceanic plateaus are enormous elevated regions of seafloor formed by the eruption of vast quantities of lava.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
There are strange choices, plateaus and unnecessary dramas, but now there is a mettle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
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
“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
There was nothing but the wide expanse of flat desert, which reached toward the edge of the horizon, where massive sandstone plateaus stood that were as faint and round as orange clouds.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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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
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
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
And that has happened even as Tesla's car production numbers have plateaued.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
But revenue plateaued, and the convention pipeline was a little softer, he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 1, 2026
His wife, Cheryl Poulsen, says she feels the disease has plateaued since he began using Sunny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
The donors who’ve been forking it over are questioning whether Cornyn has plateaued.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 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
Ember is confident that emissions from using fossil fuels to generate electricity are now plateauing and could begin a permanent decline in a few years.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2025
The elimination of the credits is expected to further stunt EV sales that have already slowed amid plateauing interest in California and steep auto tariffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2025
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