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Recent Examples of plateau
Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
Once there, a plateau dotted with strange mounds spread before them.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
Andrew Joseph, STAT, 4 Sep. 2020
Unemployment claims filed with the Texas Workforce Commission have plateaued since peaking in April.
—Dallas News, 5 June 2020
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Noun
Once again the error bars are wide, which is why the CDC’s data brief asserts that the apparent drop in the obesity rate, from 41.9 percent to 40.3 percent, is better understood as a new plateau.
—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
Once there, a plateau dotted with strange mounds spread before them.
—Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 23 Oct. 2024
Verb
But experts fear that without coordinated and sustained efforts, the country will plateau at this high level of cases.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 4 Sep. 2020
Unemployment claims filed with the Texas Workforce Commission have plateaued since peaking in April.
—Dallas News, 5 June 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plateau
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The area with the greatest foot traffic includes roughly 7,000 square miles that encompasses beaches, mesas, an inland mountain range, canyons and high desert.Bethany Blankley | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
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In one of many hidden rooms inside the labyrinth of Life and Trust, the floor turned into the soft earth of a corral, the walls were painted with a view of red-rock mesas, and a performer in a cowboy getup was circling another man who happened to be wearing a horse mask.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
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Passengers will immediately notice the absence of an overhead grab handle to stabilize themselves while the car slices through the turns.Dan Carney, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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But Chinese officials laser-focused on stabilizing their faltering economy are also mindful of the tariffs of 60% or more that Trump has vowed to impose on all Chinese imports.Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Now, archaeologists for the first time have mapped these intriguing highland strongholds in the country’s southeast — once a key crossroad of ancient silk trade routes — that were inexplicably abandoned.Katie Hunt, CNN, 23 Oct. 2024
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These western–North Carolina highlands, largely protected from extensive mining extraction, would protect me and the others who call them home.Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
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It's located on the Cumberland Plateau — a 450-mile tableland that covers much of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, with soaring sandstone walls, large boulders, and dramatic overhangs.Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 22 July 2023
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Schuerman Mountain rises in west Sedona, a high tableland that offers commanding views of gaudier formations.Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2021
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In the Chilean altiplano above 12,000 feet, Meiburg spends one of the coldest nights of his life in a sleeping bag on the edge of a salt lagoon, staking out mountain caracaras known for working in groups to flip over heavy flat stones in search of edible creatures.Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 2 Apr. 2021
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The landscape changed around me; condensing from plains, desert, and mountains into the jungles of Central America, then unfolding in reverse, into the expanse of the altiplano.J.R. Patterson, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Feb. 2022
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Hardin said he got started as a teenager maintaining communication towers and now specializes in restoring old steeples and domes.Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 2 Nov. 2024
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In this case, a paper-thin layer of this material is placed on the top surface of the floating foam under the dome.Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Plateau.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plateau. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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