level off

verb

leveled off or levelled off; leveling off or levelling off; levels off

intransitive verb

: to approach or reach a steady rate, volume, or amount : stabilize

expect prices to level off

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Meanwhile, commercial building permits are beginning to level off compared to this time last year. —

Molly Davis, The Tennessean, 3 Feb. 2025 But once things started leveling off, consumer confidence grew because a stable market is better for everybody. —

Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2025 Men, meanwhile, saw a dramatic spike in the early 1990s in cancer incidence because of a surge in early detection of asymptomatic prostate cancer, and then saw a steep decline from 2007 to 2013, before largely leveling off through 2021. —

Sarah Fortinsky, The Hill, 16 Jan. 2025 The number of global fact-checking sites increased 140% from 2016 to 2022, per Duke Reporters' Lab, before starting to level off last year. —

Sara Fischer, Axios, 1 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for level off