ceiling

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Bang has limited contact with her grown-up daughter, and fell into severe depression after major back surgery, spending hours alone staring at the ceiling in pain.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

"The rats were a big thing," she says, sitting below what is left of her kitchen ceiling, which was largely removed to deal with the infestation.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

But then he hit a ceiling, and on Tuesday, it became official that he failed to advance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

That is a hard ceiling on what present-day AI can do.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

I blinked in the white glare of bright ceiling lights.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom