plateaus
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Plateaus of brass appearing on a sonic horizon like a strip of dry land.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
Microplastic rains down from the Antarctic to the Arctic, from Tibetan Plateaus to the peaks of the Pyrenees.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2021
To the east, the province meets the Alleghany and New England Plateaus, and is connected with them by the upper Ohio and by the line of the Erie Canal.
From The Frontier in American History by Turner, Frederick Jackson
An energetic counterattack made between the Californie and Casemates Plateaus enabled the French to regain a trench line which the Germans had penetrated and held since the previous day.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)
Plateaus show in the curve as flat, level stretches during which there has apparently been no progress.
From How to Teach by Strayer, George Drayton
