High Point
noun
a city in central North Carolina.
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high pointnouna moment or occasion of great intensity, interest, happiness, etc
High Point
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High Point plays Wisconsin in the first round.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
Under first-year coach Flynn Clayman, No. 12 High Point averaged 90 points per game, which ranked third nationally and tied them with Arkansas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
As a parent of a High Point freshman, I was disappointed your article didn’t mention the most important reason parents love the school: its values.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
The campus concierge offers students airport shuttle service for free if they wear a High Point University shirt; otherwise it costs $95—a lesson in brand awareness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
Dennis was a violinist who had come to New York from High Point, North Carolina.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
He made plain in his book that the triumph of Western liberal democracy was far from complete, even as he asserted that it was the high point of mankind’s ideological evolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
For Yoonchae, the show's high point was Time Lapse, where she got to sing in her native Korean, while mingling with the crowd.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The free-cash-flow performance from the latest quarter was a particular high point, Shao wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
It rises quickly during infancy and reaches a high point at about age 1 year.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
The high point in Chargaff’s scorn came when he led Francis into admitting that he did not remember the chemical differences among the four bases.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
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