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The message is more sober than Gates’s 2023 essay on AI, when he wrote he was as excited about this revolution as the internet and PC rollouts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

"Engagement is slow, progress is incremental, and reversals are frequent," is the UN's sober summary of the past five years of on-off dialogue.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Her words were serene and sober and she looked right at me because she wanted me to know that she meant every word of what she’d said to me.

From "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by Benjamin Alire Saenz

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

I have been as a stranger in all these scenes, and never felt soberer or sadder in my life than when listening for hours to music.

From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

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

“It sobers you to lose a vessel you knew so well.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 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

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

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

“The realities of contemporary pricing sobered us up very quickly. We abandoned the idea.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 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

I kept hushing them, and they finally sobered up when I reminded them we were not libre yet.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

The church has been supporting some Iranian refugees recently and their experience is a sobering one, says Fleming.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Alternating sparkling wit with sobering erudition, he surveys the geology, geography, ecology, and social and cultural history that came to define the rivers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

In the future we may well be able to assemble nucleotides in any desired sequence, to produce whatever characteristics we think desirable—a sobering and disquieting prospect.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan