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plateaus

noun as in level; flat, often high, land

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In real life, diet plateaus are frustrating and cause people to give up their weight-loss efforts.

But if “calories-in-calories-out” is a meaningful weight-loss paradigm as the show insists, then plateaus simply are not possible.

Studies, by the way, show happiness plateaus after about $75,000 a year.

It then plateaus until the 40s before descending along a downward curve in his 60s.

But how do you make it work well and, in particular, how do you avoid common concerns like plateaus?

From these fissures immense and repeated flows of lava spread over the Kapte and Laikipia plateaus.

In many nearby places there were the brilliant early autumn flowers of the western plateaus.

The height of it is determined more by the height of near-by plateaus and passes than by that of the peaks.

One drove was migrating from summer range on the peaks and high plateaus to winter range miles below.

It avowed neither from what Asiatic or African plateaus it had descended, nor from what necessity it had sought other skies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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