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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

Now Gen Z has become simultaneously too online, too anxious, too health-conscious, too antisocial and, apparently, too sober.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

Safford James Wolfson, 36, ran a sober living and adult care facility in Rancho Palos Verdes with his 61-year-old mother, Angela Caprioli, per Linkedin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

He looked at me, his eyes sober and sharp.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

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

We became a soberer people, and we refrained largely from those sports which are so dear to us in time of peace.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by James Edward Parrott

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

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 Brooklyn chorus-girl sobers up the son and advises the daughter of a rich family.

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

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

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

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

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

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

Yet the financial math is sobering, David Wainer writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

But this recent slide has been sobering, with virtually all bats going cold at once.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Apollo’s latest research provides an even more sobering picture.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Indeed without their gaiety we wouldn’t have known it was there, a sobering reminder of how suffocating the woods can be.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson