high-water mark
Example Sentences
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Still, there are signs the 4.2% yearly rate of inflation in May could be the high-water mark of the latest bout of inflation.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
Soon, we were back on the vaporetto for a sunset ride to Al Covo, the culinary high-water mark of our family trip to Venice a decade earlier—and our parents’ honeymoon 25 years before that.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
And no analyst seemed more pleased than JPMorgan’s Mark Strouse, who increased his price target on Buy-rated GE Vernova stock to $1,000, from $740, a new high-water mark on the Street, according to FactSet.
From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025
They've come to see that moment of celebration after the inquests as their high-water mark.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025
A stone in the tiny village of Aneyoshi, in Iwate prefecture, sits at the high-water mark from a 1933 tsunami.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
