ceiling

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“But it does have a ceiling to it. Even at its best, it does not grant the resources that this film offered.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Parkins received some harsh feedback about a dusty ceiling fan in one listing photo.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

The test scores are also the floor, not the ceiling.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

But that also puts a ceiling on memory, so the chip can only support smaller AI models, like OpenAI’s Codex-Spark, which runs at blisteringly fast speeds on Cerebras hardware.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

The room was long and narrow, with an absurdly low ceiling, and he was met with the eerie impression that he’d just stepped into a casket.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman