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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said the move was because "inflation is too high and has been for too long", adding that it was a "sober" and "responsible decision".

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

While the rest of the cast would party on location in Fiji after a day’s work, Cregger, who’d gotten sober, would go back to his bungalow and work on a script.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

But one of the things to wonder at amid the good vibes is whether a different, more coherent, more sober scene would have been more meaningful, more enduring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

For those charged with keeping travellers safe, meanwhile, it is a sober responsibility.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

“I’m not the scatterbrain I was. You may trust me. I’m sober and sensible enough for anyone’s confidante now.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Harrelson's Monday night appearance as a guest on "Late Night with Seth Meyers," and a good deal soberer may have reminded us of that.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2023

Perhaps that strikes us like a quick, hard smack, makes us soberer and more respectful of facts?

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2020

But in “Bare” as in “Wanderlust,” what starts as a renegade feminism gives way to a soberer truth.

From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2011

When Buddy got out of the Army in 1945, he was soberer, had a "new, terrific soul" in his voice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having passed over these pleasant and exciting histories of personal adventure, the reader now returns to the soberer chronicles of general history.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday

Research shows Gen Z is one of the soberest generations ever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The soberest predictions of automation job loss still rely on a lattice of interlocking predictions that may not come true.

From Slate ● Mar. 31, 2021

But Barlow’s style was hyperbolic at the soberest of times.

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2018

But Ms. Vincent chooses to perform “His Promised Land,” one of her own, in the soberest of a cappella arrangements, testifying in a properly awe-struck tone.

From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2012

On the big day, a dozen of our tall and not-so-tall young ladies presented themselves in their soberest hats, clutching letters of reference in their cleanest white gloves.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

“It sobers you to lose a vessel you knew so well.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023

A circa-1900 vaudevillian sobers up to wrest his wife and son from a sleazy manager handling their act.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2019

Duncan MacMillan’s portrait of an actress and her addictions, vivified by a searing turn from Denise Gough, sobers up for the end of its run.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017

“That sobers you up, to realize you’re at the point where they’re honoring your body of work,” said Lucas, 71, who received the 2012 National Medal of Arts from President Obama.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2015

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.’

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

“The realities of contemporary pricing sobered us up very quickly. We abandoned the idea.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

“Participants were almost uniformly sobered by the paucity of effective constraints on abuse of power.”

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024

But Osadchyi and other Ukrainian researchers have been sobered by what they’ve found so far.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 3, 2024

Since 2017, as the government has been more public about the phenomenon, the conversation has sobered up somewhat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

I was suddenly sobered by the sound of footfalls close by.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

"The thought that all of these beautiful creatures and habitats could be compromised as superpowers slug it out for supremacy is sobering."

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

And a sobering note to a story that’s been upbeat most of the way.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

The statistics are sobering — so sobering that Defense Department officials refuse to confirm, deny or discuss them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Harris’ feather-light soprano is intoxicating, even when the story takes a sobering turn and the protagonist’s mother decides she’s had enough.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

But hearing him say that he hated his life brought on a sobering realization for me: my parents were human.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi