upper limit

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Dodgers manager Dave Roberts warned about this scenario when Sasaki’s fastball had only reached an upper limit of 99.5 mph.

From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026

But the 2-year yield’s move above the Fed’s 3.7% upper limit of its target funding range is particularly noteworthy, as the below chart shows.

From MarketWatch • May 14, 2026

“It doesn’t seem like there is an upper limit to how big the Street’s balance sheet can get, at least anytime soon,” the analysts wrote in a recent note.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Its dimensions place it at the upper limit of what scientists have proposed, and in one instance observed, on the Moon.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2026

For other types of human groups as well, “a few hundred” seems to be an upper limit for group size compatible with everyone’s knowing everybody.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond