sober
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It read: “A Sober Person, well recommended, who hath been us’d to the Employment of an Oysterman on York River, may meet with good Encouragement, on applying to Benjamin Bryan.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
Dr Melissa Kelly is a sobriety coach and the founder of Sober Girls Ireland, a meet-up group for sober and sober-curious women across the island.
From BBC • Sep. 16, 2023
Sober, none of the music was more interesting, effective, illuminated or illuminating in this space than it would have been elsewhere.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023
He had gotten into an Uber outside a 7-Eleven store near the L.A. offices of Sober Grid, a community platform he founded for people in addiction recovery, the company said Monday in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023
Sober little adults they had appeared on that first day, dressed in fashions much like their parents’.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
Vocabulary lists containing sober
A Raisin in the Sun
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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