"soberversary" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Blend of sober + anniversary",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2017 December 28, Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, Octopus",
          "text": "And some of the golden ones even remember my soberversary and send me congratulations every year.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 December 31, Holly Whitaker, “What Do You Do for Fun If You Dont Drink?”, in Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol, Random House Publishing Group, page 312",
          "text": "The second man I dated was Luca, who I also found on Tinder; we went our sometime around my one-year soberversary. Again, I didn't tell this man that I didn't drink before we went out; I just didn't drink on our first date, and that led to an easy and natural conversation about sobriety.",
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        {
          "ref": "2020 October 1, Sue Woolley, One Foot in Front of the Other: The most heartwarming and life-affirming story you'll read all year . . ., Headline",
          "text": "She checked in to the sobriety group, remembering belatedly that his was her two-month soberversary. She posted: Yay! It's my two-month soberversary today. I celebrated by going for a lovely walk on the Malvern Hills, then doing some writing. I really think I can do this!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 14, Millie Gooch, The Sober Girl Society Handbook: An empowering guide to living hangover free, Random House",
          "text": "Your Soberversary A very little-known perk of sobriety is that you get to add a whole new celebration to the calendar – your sober anniversary!",
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        {
          "ref": "2021 February 4, Stylist Magazine, Life Lessons On Friendship: 13 Honest Tales of the Most Important Relationships of Our Lives, Penguin UK",
          "text": "The few who really got it, who remembered my soberversary, who […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 June 10, Catherine Gray, Sunshine Warm Sober: The unexpected joy of being sober – forever, Octopus",
          "text": "the month of my seventh soberversary. And guess how long credit history is stored for, in the UK? Seven years. It felt like fiscal serendipity at its finest.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 4, Nicole Cox Murray, Tammie Cox, Don't Drink Like My Sister: The Sober Sisters Guide to Leveling up and Living Your Best Life--Alcohol-Free, Balboa Press",
          "text": "Soberversary: anniversary of a person's sobriety.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 8, Simon Chapple, edited by Lois Badey, Rock Bottom and Rising: 21 Inspiring Stories of Finding Freedom from Alcohol, John Murray Press",
          "text": "I count 4 September as my ‘soberversary’ because I didn't drink from the 3 September. In this 24-hour period, I decided that was it. I was done with alcohol.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 12, Kristi Coulter, Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career, Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
          "text": "My second soberversary falls at the end of our first week in Snoqualmie. I sit at the window that morning with my coffee and laptop open to an empty Facebook draft, wondering if I'm about to self-destruct.",
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        "The anniversary of a person's sobriety."
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          "sobriety",
          "sobriety"
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      "ipa": "/ˌsəʊ.bə(ɹ)ˈvɜːs(ə)ɹi/",
      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "/ˌsoʊ.bɚˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/",
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  "word": "soberversary"
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          "ref": "2017 December 28, Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, Octopus",
          "text": "And some of the golden ones even remember my soberversary and send me congratulations every year.",
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        {
          "ref": "2019 December 31, Holly Whitaker, “What Do You Do for Fun If You Dont Drink?”, in Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol, Random House Publishing Group, page 312",
          "text": "The second man I dated was Luca, who I also found on Tinder; we went our sometime around my one-year soberversary. Again, I didn't tell this man that I didn't drink before we went out; I just didn't drink on our first date, and that led to an easy and natural conversation about sobriety.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2020 October 1, Sue Woolley, One Foot in Front of the Other: The most heartwarming and life-affirming story you'll read all year . . ., Headline",
          "text": "She checked in to the sobriety group, remembering belatedly that his was her two-month soberversary. She posted: Yay! It's my two-month soberversary today. I celebrated by going for a lovely walk on the Malvern Hills, then doing some writing. I really think I can do this!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 14, Millie Gooch, The Sober Girl Society Handbook: An empowering guide to living hangover free, Random House",
          "text": "Your Soberversary A very little-known perk of sobriety is that you get to add a whole new celebration to the calendar – your sober anniversary!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 February 4, Stylist Magazine, Life Lessons On Friendship: 13 Honest Tales of the Most Important Relationships of Our Lives, Penguin UK",
          "text": "The few who really got it, who remembered my soberversary, who […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 June 10, Catherine Gray, Sunshine Warm Sober: The unexpected joy of being sober – forever, Octopus",
          "text": "the month of my seventh soberversary. And guess how long credit history is stored for, in the UK? Seven years. It felt like fiscal serendipity at its finest.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 January 4, Nicole Cox Murray, Tammie Cox, Don't Drink Like My Sister: The Sober Sisters Guide to Leveling up and Living Your Best Life--Alcohol-Free, Balboa Press",
          "text": "Soberversary: anniversary of a person's sobriety.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 December 8, Simon Chapple, edited by Lois Badey, Rock Bottom and Rising: 21 Inspiring Stories of Finding Freedom from Alcohol, John Murray Press",
          "text": "I count 4 September as my ‘soberversary’ because I didn't drink from the 3 September. In this 24-hour period, I decided that was it. I was done with alcohol.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 12, Kristi Coulter, Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career, Farrar, Straus and Giroux",
          "text": "My second soberversary falls at the end of our first week in Snoqualmie. I sit at the window that morning with my coffee and laptop open to an empty Facebook draft, wondering if I'm about to self-destruct.",
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        }
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