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High Point

American  

noun

  1. a city in central North Carolina.


high point British  

noun

  1. a moment or occasion of great intensity, interest, happiness, etc

    the award marked a high point in his life

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Leah “had brought them all, by her own insistence and belief and assurance, to this high point of achievement.”

From Literature

It’s a high point of the series, and the one scene I was happy to see go long.

From Los Angeles Times

As a love song, “Lowdown” is the record’s high point and disco outlier.

From The Wall Street Journal

Arriving at the high point of the journey, elevation-wise, Ms. Kessler beholds the Cruz de Ferro, an iron cross regarded as an important source of spiritual uplift.

From The Wall Street Journal

No longer constrained by moral panic, the Army draft or the decade he spent trapped within the Hollywood industrial complex, this is the King at arguably the high point of his career, right in that sweet spot before his 1973 divorce from Priscilla Presley, after which his mood and health started to flag.

From Los Angeles Times