sober
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For those charged with keeping travellers safe, meanwhile, it is a sober responsibility.
From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026
While the network presents his presence as ideological friction, Jennings presents it as sober common sense.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2026
"Engagement is slow, progress is incremental, and reversals are frequent," is the UN's sober summary of the past five years of on-off dialogue.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“I got sober because of this guy,” he said during a 2020 acceptance speech at the National Board of Review’s annual awards gala.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Yet hearing about his death left him sober.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
And while the story of Violet and Daisy’s journey toward a soberer recognition of their limits is not joyous, the art and craft that have gone into Condon’s production are full of joy.
From Washington Post
There were times when he regretted having let her go like that, without hope of seeing her again, but in his soberer moments he saw the inevitableness of the outcome.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
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
Roshan sobers a little at the mention of Tremaine, but he hides it behind a smile.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
By the time Prohibition was repealed in 1933, America was left not sobered, but hungover by its own contradictions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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
By next sunrise, the newly engaged lovers have sobered up, and the question of what everyone will think reasserts itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
Loki sobered up the next morning and thought about what he had done the night before.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
A more sobering reality for opponents is that the administration turbocharged this project, and going back now might prove impossible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
The church has been supporting some Iranian refugees recently and their experience is a sobering one, says Fleming.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The report, completed this week by CVL Economics, paints a sobering picture of the potential aftermath of the debt-laden deal, including the prospect of an estimated $1.26 billion in lost wages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Apollo’s latest research provides an even more sobering picture.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
This was a blessing, bright, vivid, and exhilarating;—not like the ponderous gift of gold: rich and welcome enough in its way, but sobering from its weight.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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