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sober

[soh-ber] / ˈsoʊ bər /




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It read: “A Sober Person, well recommended, who hath been us’d to the Employment of an Oysterman on York River, may meet with good Encouragement, on applying to Benjamin Bryan.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

Sober lives: 'I can be confident on orange juice'

From BBC • Jul. 31, 2023

The grassy lot where his remains were found was about a mile from where he was dropped off by the Uber in Santa Monica, according to Sober Grid.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2023

The study reported that participants had taken the pill on 92.5 percent of the days they were supposed to take it, Dr. Stephanie Sober, the U.S. medical liaison for the company.

From New York Times • May 9, 2023

Sober little adults they had appeared on that first day, dressed in fashions much like their parents’.

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




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