raison d'être
Example Sentences
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To underscore the Ballers’ raison d’etre — a baseball team that never would abandon Oakland — Freedman and Carmel sold ownership stakes to fans.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2024
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
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
For the social institutions of Freeland are the true and only source of our wealth; that we can use our wealth is the raison d'etre of all our machinery.
From Freeland A Social Anticipation by Hertzka, Theodor
