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plateau

noun as in level; flat, often high, land

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"In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we've actually seen, to some extent, a plateauing in the number of mpox cases, but collectively, it still is a very significantly affected country globally," he said.

From BBC

The nationwide opioid crisis continues to plague California — even as individual counties record a plateau in deaths related to drug overdoses.

On Thursday, British authorities charged a pair of climate change activists for vandalizing Stonehenge, a prehistoric megalithic structure on a chalk plateau known as the Salisbury Plain.

From Salon

Unseen forces drive a massive plateau of rock upward, carving spectacular features that one day will have names: Grand Canyon, Arches, Monument Valley.

It raises the question: Has horse racing plateaued in its effort to make the sport safer?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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