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However, as he talked with The Times, now older and sober, he is so much better equipped to handle fame and all its trappings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

The sober assessment should also recall United came from behind to beat Atalanta 3-2 at Old Trafford during Solskjaer's time.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Warsh said the rise was because "inflation is too high and has been for too long", adding that it was a "sober" and "responsible decision".

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

But allow me to be the boring, sober voice of reason: There’s a vast ocean of cruises between living frugally and rolling out the proverbial red carpet every time you step outside your front door.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 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

While the London Standard headlined its worry over REAGAN'S RAY-GUNS, the Times engaged in soberer hyperbole, calling the initiative "one of the most fundamental switches in American policy since the second World War."

From Time Magazine Archive

The golden perfection of the Augustan style gave place to the forced rhetoric and the sensational extravagance of the Neronian age and to the soberer but tamer imitations of the Flavian era.

From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar

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

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

"It sobers you," Carter said of his injury.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2012

His face sobers, grows older in the glow of the red tail-lights.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

The dismal follow-up against Ghana would have sobered them up instantly.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

I was suddenly sobered by the sound of footfalls close by.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Both my research and our recent times point to a deeper, sobering lesson.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Instead it served up a sobering reminder of the gulf between the Jillaroos - the winners of the previous three World Cups - and England, who shipped 17 tries in a lopsided affair.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh shared several sobering injury updates Monday in the wake of Sunday’s loss to the Seattle Seahawks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

"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

Once I’d conjured up that sobering image, I was able to focus on my situation, and the question at hand: What was she doing here?

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline