raison d'etre
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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
Outstanding work, Desai agreed, has to be the raison d’etre of their collective efforts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
So they feel like it is their signature, their raison d’etre.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2023
But some serving and recently retired RAF officers, who the BBC has spoken to, question whether he has lost sight of the raison d'etre of the RAF - to fight and win wars?
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2022
The existence of the readership is the raison d'etre of a free-sheeter.
From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various
But it’s the photos, of course, that are the raison d’être of this lavish book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The raison d’être for all things art-related happening here in late February.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
BeReal’s appeal ended the second the app started pushing users to friend randos and post more than once a day, defeating its entire raison d’être.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2025
Not far away, at Pepa Bar a Vins, irreverence was the raison d’être.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2025
And its worst result was the hopeless self-abandonment and sluggish cowardice of a class, whose chief raison d’être in every age is to maintain a tradition of gallant dignity.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
