plateau
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But Chatfield eventually hit a spiritual plateau that organized religion couldn’t fill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The pair saw the quality of smartphone cameras reaching a plateau and wanted to find a novel way to improve them, using both hardware and software.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
At its production plateau, Rosebank is expected to contribute around 10%-12% of group production, Cui writes after a fireside chat with Executive Chairman Yaniv Friedman at the Barclays CEO Energy-Power Conference.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
The rocky terrain of the Bundelkhand plateau means it can store little groundwater.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The dam stopped up Haiti’s largest river, the Artibonite, and flooded some of the most fertile farmland in the central plateau.
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
Multiple employees were perfecting the already-perfect plateaus of bell peppers and apples in the produce section.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2026
At CERAWeek, ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance said providing new oil supply as shale plateaus is one of the industry’s big challenges.
From Barron's ● Mar. 28, 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
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
The decision in question is the return of cattle to portions of the 646,000-hectare park, a landscape of deep ravines, high plateaux and snow gum trees.
From Nature ● Mar. 23, 2011
This metalliferous rock has evidently, in former ages, been scooped out by rivers and streams, forming valleys and vast diluvial plateaux, where the abraded materials were deposited.
From Scenes and Andventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
But that strategy has faltered as sales of its Epic passes have plateaued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The stock rallied from late 2023 to early 2025, but has plateaued since because investors are worried about how long the momentum could last.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
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
My stock plummeted, and by high school, it plateaued.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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Additionally, BT is shifting from a phase of decline to one of stabilization as Openreach line losses seem to be plateauing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Experts say that doctors should be able to offer treatment when other symptoms are present, such as plateauing pregnancy hormone levels, bleeding and abdominal pain.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
With pandemic-era stimulus initiatives long forgotten, home prices plateauing, and investor portfolios pointing down, consumer sentiment has little reason to improve.
From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 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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