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
How much mileage can there be in a literary magazine whose raison d’etre is just: Taco Bell?
From Slate • Sep. 8, 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
Their report made it clear that the boy's reiterated family history was a fabrication—the raison d'etre of which is still in doubt.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William
