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plateau

[pla-toh, plat-oh] / plæˈtoʊ, ˈplæt oʊ /
NOUN
level; flat, often high, land
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On average, people taking tirzepatide lose more weight than those taking semaglutide so it might take them longer to plateau.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026

Structure Therapeutics’ GLP-1 pill led to over 16% average weight loss in a 10-month trial, with no plateau.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

The second site lies on the plateau above Juventae Chasma, a 5-km-deep canyon located just north of Valles Marineris.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

Specialists from Charmouth and Weymouth fire stations were then summoned to help lower the dog owner down to the wide plateau.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

For the other eight months he returned to the central plateau of Haiti, doctoring impoverished patients, many of whom had lost their land to a government hydroelectric dam project.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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