plateauin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
plateau as in: found on the plateau
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The plateau is about half a mile above sea level.
plateau = high land that is reasonably flat
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She is studying the impact of climate change on the Tibetan plateau.
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The species lives only on that plateau.
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In the gray light, they could see a small footpath to a plateau. (source)
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Megadon was anchored atop a rocky plateau, on the edge of an immense cliff. (source)plateau = high land that is reasonably flat
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Annabeth recalled the landscape she'd seen while they fell—a series of plateaus leading ever downward into the gloom.† (source)
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The site chosen for the village festivity was one of the lawn-like oases which were occasionally, yet not often, met with on the plateaux of the heath district.† (source)
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I learned to recognize the slow, heaving, plateaulike pulse of a narrowed aortic valve.† (source)
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I didn't have a clue as to how to locate the tent on the featureless glacial plateau. (source)
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He compared it with the sterile plateaus of the North, where he had spent two years stuck in a hole in the midst of a rough and lunar horizon whose terrifying beauty never ceased to interest him.† (source)
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Physics decreed something like falling, and yet the hills of surf, with their own valleys, peaks, and plateaux, confounded his expectations.† (source)
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From the right flank of the plateaulike land on the eastern beaches came automatic-weapons fire that swept back and forth. (source)
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Mrs Whatsit came to rest on a small plateau of smooth silvery rock. (source)
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Small hills and depressions started to form on the field; entire sections rose or lowered several feet to form ridges and plateaus.† (source)
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plateau as in: reached a plateau in our growth
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She projects that the world's population will plateau at about ten billion people.plateau = reach a period of little change after more rapid change
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The young star's popularity increased during his first few months in the NBA and then began to plateau.plateau = change little after more rapid change
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Sales increased for three straight years, but now they seem to have hit a plateau.plateau = time of little change
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History knows no resting places and no plateaus. (source)plateaus = times of little change after more rapid change
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One of the less bullshitty conventions of the cancer kid genre is the Last Good Day convention, wherein the victim of cancer finds herself with some unexpected hours when it seems like the inexorable decline has suddenly plateaued, when the pain is for a moment bearable. (source)plateaued = reached a time of little change after more rapid change
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That plague eventually reached some kind of a plateau. (source)plateau = reach a period of little change after more rapid change
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The pain has plateaued, but I'm completely paralyzed. (source)plateaued = reached a time of little change after more rapid change
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For that is exactly what she calls it—a plateau—this forlorn limbo where she wanders solitary and freezing. (source)plateau = period of little change
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She said I reached a plateau. (source)plateau = a time of little change after more rapid change
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She said I reached a plateau. (source)
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I've moved up to another plateau, and now the streams of the various disciplines seem to be closer to each other as if they flow from a single source. (source)
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Adam's tibial plateau—the upper surface of the tibia, the shinbone—had "caved in, shattered," according to the doctor who saw Adam. (source)tibial plateau = the flat top portion of the tibia bone (running from the knee to the ankle)
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But as would be officially cited, the cause of Adam's crushed tibial plateau was a slip on the stadium stairs while bearing the full weight of his kit and body armor. (source)
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