plateau
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Jacob had a meteoric climb from being an unranked university student in 2024 to the world's top 50 a year later - but he has recently hit a plateau.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
One day the pioneers who had planted the first trees on the windswept coastal plateau discovered huge gashes in the rich vegetation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Now the equestrian world might be hitting a plateau: exact genetic replicas of successful horses and ponies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
It’s no secret that vinyl records’ resurgence has hit a new plateau, outselling CDs for the first time since 1987 as of 2022, according to a report from the Recording Industry Assn. of America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 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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Instead of varying smoothly, the Hall voltage increases in distinct steps and plateaus.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2026
Not with another four years on his contract, a current buyout price of $22.5 million and now a not-terrible finish to this strange season of all peaks and valleys and no plateaus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 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
Tesla’s stock revalues and sits at new plateaus every time it achieves one of its big goals, such as launching the best-selling car, electric or otherwise, in the world, an achievement of Tesla’s Model Y.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
As we passed the high plateaus and rounded the last cliffside into the open country, we spied a massive caravan—three hundred camels deep—a moving village riding toward us.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
From arboreal foothills, we climbed up to bare, boulder-strewn plateaux, before plunging back down to shaded valleys below.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2020
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 lofty plateaux of Tulla, of Mexico and of Cholula, are the first victims of his desolating force.
From Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by R?ville, Albert
The speeds of planes and cars may have plateaued, but one thing that has definitely sped up beyond all prior imagining is the speed of communication.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
It made sense for his family at the time because his wife’s business was growing, while he felt his career in content marketing had plateaued.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
And that has happened even as Tesla's car production numbers have plateaued.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
The donors who’ve been forking it over are questioning whether Cornyn has plateaued.
From Slate ● Mar. 2, 2026
My stock plummeted, and by high school, it plateaued.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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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
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
The previously maligned ADP gauge has confirmed the plateauing of payrolls outside the government sector.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
On a development curve of Lando, we are not plateauing yet.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
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