plateauing
present participle ofplateau
plateau
verb[I]
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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
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plateauing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Magnetic resonance imaging using echoplanar imaging may eventually be able to differentiate between shrinkage andplateauingin growth with serial, accurate tumour/organ volume measurements.
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There was a natural surge after we removed the three-year bar but that isplateauingout.
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That decline stopped in 2001 and it is nowplateauing.
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What is the reason for thatplateauing?
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A practical application of the plateau principle is that most people have experiencedplateauingduring regimens for weight management or training for sports.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Late-life mortality deceleration corresponds to hazard rate increasing more slowly than linearly (on a log-linear graph), instead curving and possiblyplateauing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Capable of growing between 5-20 times the size of the subsurface network in 10-15 days beforeplateauingto a stable condition.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The number showed a slow but steady increase from just 56 students in 2000-01, beforeplateauingaround 2005-06.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Smaller numbers arise from assumptions based on aplateauingof identification of new species (which has technical explanations other than that fewer species remain to be identified).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The evidence is that teachers start to become skilled with a particular method after about 10 repetitions with improvementplateauingafter 6 months to 2 years of use.
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