plateau
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On the Aybasti plateau in the northeastern Ordu province, villagers turned out en masse earlier this month to protest plans to mine an area they use for farming.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
OpenAI’s, by some indications, has begun to plateau.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Global oil demand could plateau as this trend accelerates around the world.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Naturalist Stephen Boyes believes massive elephants live undetected on a remote plateau in Angola; they’d be descendants of a giant pachyderm hunted and killed 70 years ago that now resides in the Smithsonian.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
After a while we heard the train-whistle way off below on the other side of the plateau, and then we saw the headlight coming up the hill.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Vocabulary lists containing plateau
Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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100 Great Words from "Fahrenheit 451" -- Part I Vocabulary
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