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
How much mileage can there be in a literary magazine whose raison d’etre is just: Taco Bell?
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2023
It’s a good question, and one that cuts to the core of the new policy’s raison d’etre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 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
This was the spirit which permeated the raison d'etre of each noble lord in that great assembly.
From The Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley
But she’s also the kind of television personality who is comfortable before the camera without being in love with it, or giving the impression that media success is her raison d’être.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Couple the above with ExpressVPN’s pretty stringent privacy policy, you begin to understand that ExpressVPN is more of an “old school” VPN provider, for which security and privacy are a VPN’s raison d’être.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 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
Fundamentally, the format's raison d'être is now under question.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
I have endeavored to show, in the first place, that the doctrine of focus and margin involves the raison d'être of psychology.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
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