Sample Sentences for
plateau
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(editor-reviewed)

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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    Mrs Whatsit came to rest on a small plateau of smooth silvery rock.  (source)
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    I didn't have a clue as to how to locate the tent on the featureless glacial plateau.  (source)
    plateau = high land that is reasonably flat
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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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    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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    Megadon was anchored atop a rocky plateau, on the edge of an immense cliff.  (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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    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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    In the gray light, they could see a small footpath to a plateau.  (source)
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    But now, as I whirled eastward, over desert, under the shadow of mountains, by mesas, across plateaus, and saw the people in that magnificent empty country, I did not think that I would ever have to envy anybody again, for I was sure that now I had the secret knowledge, and with knowledge you can face up to anything, for knowledge is power.†  (source)
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plateau as in:  reached a plateau in our growth

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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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    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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    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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    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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    She said I reached a plateau.  (source)
    plateau = a time 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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    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)
    plateau = a time of little change after more rapid change
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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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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