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"In a sober mind, it's not easy," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

“Back then, a sober numbers guy was the right choice,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

While I'm always happy to talk about being sober, it's also important not to preach.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

The opera begins with three ceremonial chords in the orchestra that signal a brief, sober introduction quickly undercut by an exhilarating fast-forwarding overture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026

"I didn't get around to saying thanks for taking care of my mother," he says, sober in a way I've never seen him.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

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

France, whose world reputation for temperance was belied by her world's record of one saloon for every 80 men, women and children, is a much soberer country today.

From Time Magazine Archive

The other tomb, that of Nawab Islam Khan, is soberer and in excellent taste, but quite eclipsed by its surroundings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" 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

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

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

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

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

The sobered guests crowded close, waiting for one answer.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare

The sight of Alexander Isak, Anthony Gordon and Tonali all leaving the club in the space of less than a year is sobering.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 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

Some retail investors, like this videogame aficionado, made a killing, but there are reasons to take a sobering look at AI.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

Tech companies are spending big on building out AI infrastructure, and Google’s new equity offering is a sobering reminder that money doesn’t grow on trees.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

But his talk all those years later was a sobering reminder of how high the stakes had been that day whether we knew it or not.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry