sober
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“But the bad tweets are 100 percent sober tweets.”
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
Countless documents and logistical plans have been drawn up by interest groups over the decades, some of them more sober and measured than others.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
‘Some folk have all the luck,’ they said; but it was not until Frodo approached the usually more sober age of fifty that they began to think it queer.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
In soberer versions that sort of skill will become a necessity in thousands of jobs opening up in the future.
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
But Ms. Vincent chooses to perform “His Promised Land,” one of her own, in the soberest of a cappella arrangements, testifying in a properly awe-struck tone.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2012
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
Roshan sobers a little at the mention of Tremaine, but he hides it behind a smile.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
Mull’s art is impressively varied and original and grows more powerful in the years after he sobered up and confronted some of the demons of his difficult childhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
“The realities of contemporary pricing sobered us up very quickly. We abandoned the idea.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Mr Geoghegan replied: "No. I think he probably got there and thought, 'Why am I here?', 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
“We’ll have to work for it. I wouldn’t like to have the General after me if I made him angry,” Arm said, which sobered up the other detectives at once.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
"This is a sobering reminder of the power of nature," he added.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
In fact, sobering statistics point to how patchy this technology can be in what it pours on the ground.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
It was a sobering rejection, and made me realize that finding an adviser isn’t like hiring a contractor who actively bids for your business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
It’s sobering and painful work because people have died or are ailing.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
The memory of Asase injects a sobering determination in me.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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