sober-minded
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“We’re gonna be very sober-minded about the challenge, and I want you all to know the odds that we are facing,” Johnson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
Such institutionwide assessment and response will also demand fundamental curricular reform, guided by sober-minded leaders moving at speeds unknown among academic-bureaucratic committees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
The second is Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a sober-minded leader long concerned about growing division, who recognizes that the last thing anyone needs right now is the temperature being dialed up any further.
From Slate ● Sep. 13, 2025
Dialing down the temperature with a sober-minded, fact-guided effort at giving Anthony due process would work out better for everyone in the community.
From Salon ● Apr. 25, 2025
He could not believe that a dignified body of sober-minded legislators were allowing these “shaking Quakers” with their throbbing consciences to control the national agenda.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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