break the ceiling

Frequency: 6.03.0 per million words

to go beyond a set limit

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Examples (10)

  • The new technology is expected to break the ceiling on energy efficiency.
  • Last quarter, the sales team successfully broke the ceiling on their targets.
  • Congress is debating whether to raise the debt ceiling again to avoid breaking it.
  • If we break the expenditure ceiling, we will face severe financial penalties.
  • The athlete's main goal is to break the performance ceiling at the next competition.
  • With this innovation, we can finally break the ceiling of what's possible in data processing.
  • The central bank intervened to prevent inflation from breaking the established price ceiling.
  • Breaking the production ceiling required a complete overhaul of our assembly line.
  • They put a funding ceiling on the project, but researchers hope to break it with additional grants.
  • Let's aim to break the ceiling for user engagement in our next software release.