plateaued
past simple and past participle ofplateau
plateau
verb[I]
uk/ˈplæt.əʊ/us/plætˈoʊ/toreachaparticularleveland thenstaythe same:
I'd beenlosingabout apoundaweekon mydiet, butrecentlyI've plateaued and haven'tlostanounce.
Theeconomicslowdownhascausedoursalesto plateau.
Keeping and staying the same
- anti-progressive
- calcification
- calcify
- consistency
- consistent
- continuum
- insensitivity
- invariant
- inveteracy
- leave well aloneidiom
- left
- peg
- stability
- stabilization
- stabilize
- stably
- stay
- wallow
- wallow insomething
- wouldn't have it any other wayidiom
Examplesofplateaued
plateaued
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The lifetime fecundity of adult females of 1.8 mm body length and aboveplateauedat c. 150 eggs per female.
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Under both criteria learning was seen to improve steadily with an increasing training set until performanceplateauedat a very high level.
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These symptoms peaked at age 17,plateaueduntil age 19, and declined thereafter.
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Genetic analysis of a strain of miceplateauedfor litter size.
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The authors suggest that the search they carried out on medical futility showed that citations haveplateaued.
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The readings from fixed cellsplateauedat approximately the same level as that seen in live cells, where the measurements were consistent with time.
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Divorce, which was virtually unknown in some time periods, hasplateauedat one in every two marriages.
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Over the past five or so years the death rate hasplateauedout, as we have heard, at about 540 a year.
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The value of land rose sharply, almost as soon as capital gains tax was introduced in 1965, until 1982, since when it has virtuallyplateaued.
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The overall standard of living hasplateauedout at the 1973 level.
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We are not reducing the funding for the community programme, although it is true that overall the programme hasplateauedand there is a slight reduction in places.
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This study described an asymptomatic increase in height during flight thatplateauedat 29 days.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Recent growth has also contributed to significant rises in average property values in 2006, although valuesplateauedin 2007.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The number of serious crimesplateauedfrom 2002 to 2005, after which crime began decreasing at a rapid pace.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The level of instruction parallelism quicklyplateauedby the mid-2000s.
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- aloha
- alone
- along
- a long face
- a-long-face
- a long haul
- alongside
- along-the-lines-of
- along the lines of something
- along the lines of sth
- along-the-lines-of-sth
- along the same lines
- along-the-same-lines
- along the way
- along-the-way
- a long way to go
- a-long-way-to-go
- along-with
- along with someone/something
- aloo
- aloof
- aloofness
- alopecia
- a lot of anger
- a lot of confidence