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Since 2017, as the government has been more public about the phenomenon, the conversation has sobered up somewhat.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2023

That has sobered up the Treasury market a touch after a couple of weeks of disinflation relief.

From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2023

A damning assessment of the Conservative Party's electoral prospects has sobered the mood of the beer-sipping crowd gathered in a central London pub.

From BBC • May 19, 2023

“All of that, I think, has sobered Xi Jinping to some extent,” Burns said.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2023

Seriously, I think you have done something to save this country; for the Telegraph continues to be almost the only paper that the crisis has sobered and not tipsified.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie