sober

The June half is expected to be more sober, he adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Conviction rates are lower than when the person assaulted was sober.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

You’ve been sober for something like half a century.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Among the farmhands, though, was a member of the Blackfoot Indian tribe named Levi, who behaved very differently from the coarse miners—being polite, gentle, responsible, sober, and well spoken.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Men who had left camp and field for the soberer routine of civil life were not yet fully domesticated.

From Atlantic Classics by Various

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2012

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

Asked by coroner Dr James Adeley if Mr Slater "seemed fearful or under duress", Mr Geoghehan said: "No," adding he had "probably... 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

The thought of spending the rest of the day copying out the tedious Book of Numbers sobered me deeply as I watched my father go.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

"This is a sobering reminder of the power of nature," he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

But here’s a sobering estimate: to justify all the cash being invested in AI, American businesses and consumers would have to spend about as much on AI in 2032 as they do on food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

That’s a sobering statistic for the Chargers, Houston Texans and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, all winless so far.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

It just issued a new recent report on the state of American democracy and the effects of its decline on the rest of the world, and the conclusions are sobering.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

But hearing him say that he hated his life brought on a sobering realization for me: my parents were human.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi