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Shortly after Max’s trial ended, Anna and Tom got married, Anna got sober, and both buried a few secrets.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

"In a sober mind, it's not easy," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

For Taylor, who was sober on the night of her attack, large parts of that night remain a blur, but she is "thankful" to her friends who helped keep her safe.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

“Back then, a sober numbers guy was the right choice,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

“Oh, really, I beg pardon. It’s an uncommonly fine one, isn’t it?” said Tudor, with great presence of mind, and an air of sober interest that did credit to his breeding.

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

For nowhere in the world are there colder, soberer, less wishful judges of naval warfare.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, Robert Blake was in his soberer hours—say, from Tuesdays to Fridays—an expert mechanic, thoroughly conversant with the interior lack of economy of most makes of automobiles.

From The Book of Susan A Novel by Dodd, Lee Wilson

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

‘It’s Easy to Remember,’ ‘Everything Happens to Me,’ ‘With Every Breath I Take,’ ‘P.S. I Love You’ … Sinatra at his soberest, most dignified manliness.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2015

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

So you can understand the muted celebration in Julia Wolfe’s “Her Story,” an oratorio-like work that originated as a commemoration of the 19th Amendment yet sobers as much as it rouses.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2022

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

“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

In the book, Peoria leaves his job, sobers up, becomes a journalism professor at a small college, and falls in love.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2014

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

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

A tinge of pink and purple colored the sky above the woods, and he felt suddenly sobered by the cold.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

His discussion of dying in an unprotected Air Force One and taking reporters with him, and his constant acknowledgement of threats against his life, are sobering and concerning.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

The sight of Alexander Isak, Anthony Gordon and Tonali all leaving the club in the space of less than a year is sobering.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

But the outside help also highlighted a sobering reality: The government’s inability to deal with the tragedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Ken Burns’s 2025 series “The American Revolution” taught some sobering, complicating lessons about our national foundational myths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

In the future we may well be able to assemble nucleotides in any desired sequence, to produce whatever characteristics we think desirable—a sobering and disquieting prospect.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan