plateaus
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They are part of a growing network of “dual-use” facilities—newly built or expanded and modernized over a decade—that dot the Tibetan plateau’s forbidding landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
However, a later genome-scale study challenged this hypothesis by pushing the divergence date backward, predating the plateau's formation.
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2024
Ties between the Israeli state and the plateau's Druze community, whose members profess loyalty to Damascus, are generally placid.
From Reuters • Jun. 21, 2023
But just as important as avoiding hypoxia was finding enough food in the plateau's unpredictable, freezing and hyper-arid environment.
From Salon • Apr. 13, 2023
When I caught up to Emma she was standing near the plateau’s edge, gazing out at the countryside below, sloping green hills falling away to a distant plain.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
