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plateaus
Variant of plateau
- an elevated tract of more or less level land; tableland; mesa
- a period, level, etc. of relative stability, or relatively little change, as can be shown by a flat extent on a graph, etc.; specif., a period in which an individual's learning rate does not improve
intransitive verb
to become relatively stable or constant, as in position
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