raison d'être
Example Sentences
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A concert might sound like an odd raison d’etre for visiting a foreign country, especially when fans can watch the Eras Tour from home via the documentary now streaming on Disney+.
From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024
In exchange, the subject’s greatness will be treated as an assumption, the raison d’etre for the book itself.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2023
So they feel like it is their signature, their raison d’etre.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2023
Matter’s primary raison d’etre is to make more devices work with more platforms, removing the confusion and chaos that dominates today’s smart home.
From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2022
She was the last woman to consent to stolen meetings, even were he to suggest them, for the raison d'etre of their companionship would be gone.
From Sleeping Fires: a Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
