sober
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“No, sober does not mean ‘not fun,’” she said.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
“I got sober because of this guy,” he said during a 2020 acceptance speech at the National Board of Review’s annual awards gala.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
"In a sober mind, it's not easy," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The author takes a sober approach to these qualms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Fortunately more sober types were at work elsewhere.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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
It is the soberer, less dramatic business of administering resources and plants already in hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
This injustice was transient, and soberer views convinced me that every scheme, comprising the whole, must be productive of partial and temporary evil.
From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
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 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
In the book, Peoria leaves his job, sobers up, becomes a journalism professor at a small college, and falls in love.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2014
Roshan sobers a little at the mention of Tremaine, but he hides it behind a smile.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
The dismal follow-up against Ghana would have sobered them up instantly.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
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
That sobered them as much as Fern’s name, which they both mouthed.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
But this recent slide has been sobering, with virtually all bats going cold at once.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Despite these sobering realities, “The Madness Pill” is a celebration of scientific genius and a salute to the wild complexity of the brain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
His discussion of dying in an unprotected Air Force One and taking reporters with him, and his constant acknowledgement of threats against his life, are sobering and concerning.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026
"To see temperatures like this in the UK in June is sobering," said Belcher.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Indeed without their gaiety we wouldn’t have known it was there, a sobering reminder of how suffocating the woods can be.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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