plateau
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India's Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said last week that talks had hit a "plateau", with little room for further concessions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
The 1.5% gain over the previous month reflected a plateau in mortgage rates over the summer, but sales activity overall remained subdued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
He added that the company remains reliant on a subscription business that could be approaching a plateau.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The northwestern part of Motte Rimrock Reserve, a biological field station on a rocky plateau managed by UC Riverside, also falls in an evacuation warning zone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
On a plateau commanding the Coatzacoalcos river basin, San Lorenzo proper was inhabited mainly by the elite; everyone else lived in the farm villages around it.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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The topology of that state fixes the values of the steps and plateaus, making them resistant to disturbances and defects.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 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
There are strange choices, plateaus and unnecessary dramas, but now there is a mettle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 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
She nods and stares across the far side of the lake, to the distant icy mountains where the water pours over the plateaus.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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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
Much of the land is occupied by plateaux, bare and rocky like great altars on which all that lives is offered to and consumed by the sun.
From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert
The optimal range was 5,000 to 7,500 steps daily, after which the effect plateaued.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
But that strategy has faltered as sales of its Epic passes have plateaued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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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The figures - up to 2024-25 - peaked during Covid, before dropping slightly and plateauing.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The argument wasn’t anything new, and it certainly wasn’t influenced by plateauing sales or consumer complaints.
From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2026
With repetition, they got faster until plateauing, which he thinks was when the sorting task became automated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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
It has been a bumpy road for the electric vehicle market as declining federal support and plateauing public interest have eaten away at sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
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