High Point
noun
a city in central North Carolina.
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high pointnouna moment or occasion of great intensity, interest, happiness, etc
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There was just one problem, write Robert O’Connell and Laine Higgins: Johnston, a senior shooting guard for High Point University, is usually forbidden from attempting a shot anywhere near the rim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 21, 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
High Point plays Wisconsin in the first round.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2026
High Point, meantime, has doubled down on a holistic, values-driven approach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
Curtis and Minnie housed and fed whole families that had migrated north from High Point, but Dennis was too proud to look them up.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
Except Perry remembers the song as a high point for Schon: “You know the guitar outro from ‘Who’s Crying Now’?” he asked a New York Times reporter in 2003.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
As Mr. Van de Ven drily notes, “this would mark the high point of Marshall’s peacemaking in Asia.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
Leah “had brought them all, by her own insistence and belief and assurance, to this high point of achievement.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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