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Synonyms for sobering
sober·ing

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  1. soberingadjective

    tending to make sober or more serious

    "the news had a sobering effect"

    Antonyms:
    frivolous

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  1. List of paraphrases for "sobering":

    thought-provoking, instructive, bleak

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  1. James Clapper:

    Well some of it, to be honest, is misinformed or uninformed, i have to believe though that whoever is elected president, which has to be a very, very sobering realization, that some of that rhetoric would be tempered.

  2. Clay Jordan:

    The sobering reality is that we have seen another huge loss within a finite population of these iconic trees that are irreplaceable in many lifetimes, as spectacular as these trees are we really can't take them for granted. To ensure that they're around for our kids and grandkids and great grandkids, some action is necessary.

  3. Sylvester Turner:

    Unfortunately, the increase in homicides during the first month of 2022, including assaults on police officers and citizens is a sobering reminder that we must collectively strive for excellence as a community to combat our increasing crime challenges.

  4. Tom Lehrer:

    It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

  5. An AP reporter:

    In June, these were nonviolent protesters, racially mixed, a lot of young people fueled by the Black Lives Matter movement, those outraged by the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed under the knee of a White police officer in Minnesota. There was no violence there ... And the Biden White House has made it clear that they think that the threat posed by domestic terrorism is equal to that posed by international terror groups like ISIS, which is such a sobering thought that fellow Americans could be perceived as such a dangerous threat to their countrymen and women.


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