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The most sober analysis may be the one commissioned by L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

A more sober reminder of the march of time is this week’s 25th anniversary of 9/11.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Inquests are officially meant to be inquisitorial - their aim is to find facts in a calm, sober way.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

After that he looks like a midwestern bank president, with his straight neatly brushed silver hair, his sober posture, shoulders a little stooped.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

I reckon old Eph was soberer then than he had been five minutes sooner.

From The Broken Gate A Novel by Emerson Hough

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

Peter instantly sobers up, utters the key line of the movie, “Let’s go save our friend,” and off they go.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

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

Roshan sobers a little at the mention of Tremaine, but he hides it behind a smile.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

Mr Geoghegan replied: "No. I think he probably got there and thought, 'Why am I here?', sobered up and decided to come back."

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025

“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

That sobered them as much as Fern’s name, which they both mouthed.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

"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

It’s sobering and painful work because people have died or are ailing.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

RCEM's Dr Adrian Boyle said the figures were "sobering".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Alternating sparkling wit with sobering erudition, he surveys the geology, geography, ecology, and social and cultural history that came to define the rivers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Information is so powerful that the assumption of information, even if the information does not actually exist, can have a sobering effect.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt