raison d'etre
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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
How much mileage can there be in a literary magazine whose raison d’etre is just: Taco Bell?
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2023
“We will flourish until our raison d’etre for being people’s lawyers ceases.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2022
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
She made extensive use of the word "erudite," and confused a great many people by employing "vicarious" and "didactic" and "raison d'etre" in the course of ordinary conversation.
From Quill's Window by George Barr McCutcheon
But, for smaller companies whose AI offerings are their raison d’être, there are pros and cons of the new era.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 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
Unrestrained power, of course, is the president’s raison d’être.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025
Fundamentally, the format's raison d'être is now under question.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
A theory of value which cannot be applied in the money market, the stock exchange, and the great field of modern business generally, has small raison d'être.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
