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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Karsen MacDougall, a senior at High Point University in North Carolina, was feeling anxious when she still hadn’t gotten a job by February.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
In warm North Carolina, High Point University often ferries visitors in golf carts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
No. 5 seed Wisconsin learned that during a loss to No. 12 High Point on Thursday and top-ranked Duke nearly did, having to rally from 13 points down to survive No. 16 Siena.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
When the Badgers jumped out to a 10-point lead in the first half, it seemed that High Point would become just another mid-major casualty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
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
It was the high point of the first European campaign in the club's history.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
On the third day, they climbed to a high point from which they could see the flattened area where his brother’s two-story residence building once stood.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
And then we had a great dinner and celebrated and said, you know, “This is the high point, it’s downhill from here on out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The free-cash-flow performance from the latest quarter was a particular high point, Shao wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The dramatic high point of the Civil Rights Movement occurred in 1963.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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