Similar words: sober, lumbering, lingering, gathering, offering, withering, mothering, wandering. Meaning: ['səʊbə(r)] 
adj. tending to make sober or more serious.
adj. tending to make sober or more serious. 
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(31) Her illness had a sobering effect on her.
(32) A sobering reflection of this is the loss of $ 30 trillion dollars in equity prices globally.
(33) The case example of the UK's Yorkshire Ripper Hoaxer however is a sobering reminder of the real link between backlog, convictions, and public safety.
(34) If households are slow to shrink back, it has sobering implications for many industries.
(35) The dreadful , haunting fear of nuclear warfare casts a sobering pall over all international relations.
(36) That is sobering for anybody tempted to chop down rainforest and plant something more immediately lucrative.
(37) The 1967 Arab-Israeli war ends in a stunning military victory for Israel and a sobering defeat for the Arab armies(sentencedict.com), and begins Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
(38) His sobering conclusion is not exactly, at least compared with other countries.
(39) The argument went that Col Gaddafi had watched the fate of fellow miscreant Saddam Hussein, hanged by Iraqis after a US-instigated legal process, and had learnt a sobering lesson.
(40) Surviving such a serious accident is really a sobering experience.
(41) There were some sobering stats out this morning from a new consumer survey of the affluent.
(42) Needless to say, it is a sobering set of articles.
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(43) A sobering thought for many business schools in this year FT ranking.
(44) Climate change is essentially irreversible, according to a sobering new scientific study.
(45) Being a teacher entails not only great rewards but also a sobering responsibility.
(46) There is, however, a sobering side to U.S.-China commercial relations: For every story like Duke Energy's or Boeing's, there are many more that are never written.
(47) On that sobering note, here's how to as safe as possible.
(48) The breadth of this statement is sobering when you consider that this shekinah glory is the same presence Moses experienced when God met with him face-to-face (Exodus 24:15-18).
(49) Freedom's challenge in the Atomic Age is a sobering topic.
(50) But the debate at an annual Asian-security summit held between June 4th and 6th in the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore had a sobering undertone.
(51) The events of October 1987 had a sobering effect on managers of large funds.
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