sober
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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
I left our short chat feeling uplifted by how smiley and polite he was in daylight and while we were sober.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
“Back then, a sober numbers guy was the right choice,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
In a sober ceremony, the Mexica abjured their old religion and embraced Christianity.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
During World War I he joined Sun Oil's Philadelphia office as aide to Elder Brother John Howard, who is a little taller, greyer, soberer.
From Time Magazine Archive
I reckon old Eph was soberer then than he had been five minutes sooner.
From The Broken Gate A Novel by Hough, Emerson
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
Social media sites and football message boards, prone to conspiracy theories, hyperbole and fabrications in even the soberest scenarios, went wild.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2020
But Barlow’s style was hyperbolic at the soberest of times.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2018
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 Brooklyn chorus-girl sobers up the son and advises the daughter of a rich family.
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
His face sobers, grows older in the glow of the red tail-lights.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
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
That sobered him, and he continued to regard the scene without the hint of a smile.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
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
Attacking numbers at the 2026 World Cup have also been sobering amid a summer of Tartan Army partying across Boston and Miami.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 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
Temperatures could soar to 40C, unprecedented for the time of the year -- a "sobering" prospect, according to Met Office chief scientist Stephen Belcher.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
Another sobering accident happened in the dark when Galina “Galya” Dokutovich, one of the navigators, returned from a nighttime flight mission that summer.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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