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Meanings of sobering in anglès

Sobering.

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Usage of sobering in anglès
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Evidence of police departments across America having similar capabilities is especially sobering.
Ebony
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The global statistics on land mines and their effects make sobering reading.
BBC
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It issued a sobering report quantifying global rates of resistance in April.
Wired
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Would an increase in excise duty on alcohol have a sobering effect?
The Irish Times
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Another sobering statistic: 41 per cent of first marriages end in divorce.
News.com.au
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The sobering truth is that this feared expansion is already under way.
The Guardian
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Certainly it's been a sobering experience being in that kind of environment.
Ebony
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Or, a more sobering thought, had she already left it too late?
The Irish Times
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It doesn't really have the sobering effect the experts were hoping for.
News.com.au
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Her story is sobering - and she wants people to listen carefully.
BBC
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That sobering possibility was enough to spur her to more drastic action.
Frontier courtship
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As reality checks go this was pretty sobering, to put it mildly.
The Irish Times
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Speaking from experience, I can tell you it is a sobering realization.
Ebony
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More sobering, how would the children who survived explain it to us?
The Irish Times
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That was a sobering sort of thing to hear, even for me.
White night
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And therewith a sudden sobering of the ruddy countenance and self-important manner.
Elizabeth's Campaign
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Sobering across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common