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soberversary en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌsoʊ.bɚˈvɝs(ə)ɹi/ (US)
• /ˌsəʊ.bə(ɹ)ˈvɜːs(ə)ɹi/ (UK)

Etymology

Blend of sober + anniversary.

Meanings

1. The anniversary of a person's sobriety.
   • 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. 2021 June 10, Catherine Gray, Sunshine Warm Sober: The unexpected joy of being sober – forever, Octopus, →ISBN:
   • 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. 2022 December 8, Simon Chapple, edited by Lois Badey, Rock Bottom and Rising: 21 Inspiring Stories of Finding Freedom from Alcohol, John Murray Press, →ISBN:
   • The few who really got it, who remembered my soberversary, who […] 2021 February 4, Stylist Magazine, Life Lessons On Friendship: 13 Honest Tales of the Most Important Relationships of Our Lives, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
   • Soberversary: anniversary of a person's sobriety. 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, →ISBN:
   • 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. 2023 September 12, Kristi Coulter, Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
   • 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! 2021 January 14, Millie Gooch, The Sober Girl Society Handbook: An empowering guide to living hangover free, Random House, →ISBN:
   • And some of the golden ones even remember my soberversary and send me congratulations every year. 2017 December 28, Catherine Gray, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, Octopus, →ISBN:
   • 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! 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, →ISBN:
   • 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. 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, →ISBN, page 312:

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