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
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
Evidently he does not believe in shams, those little conventionalities, nearly all of which have some excellent cause for existence, although we do not always pause to examine into their raison d'etre.
From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion
