level off

verb

leveled off or levelled off; leveling off or levelling off; levels off

: to approach or reach a steady rate, volume, or amount : stabilize

expect prices to level off

Examples of level off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But price dynamics weren’t consistent across products: prices continued to go up for dairy, eggs, sugar and meat, and leveled off or dropped for items including pet food, apples, potatoes, strawberries, sporting goods, and lawn and garden items. —

Melissa Repko, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024 Many big grocery chains that have seen production costs level off have nevertheless kept prices high and have seen their highest profits in two decades. —

Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2024 Nice little burst of energy that leveled off within 30 minutes. —

Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024 And huge gains made in prostate cancer death rates from the mid-1990s through the early 2000s – a result of the emergence of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing – appear to have leveled off since about 2012. —

Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 28 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for level off

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