raison d'etre
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"But you also knew that his raison d'etre was to sort of catch you in the off moment."
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
My raison d’etre for living is him, to take care of him, to protect him.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
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
Some golden day, of course, he would have many millions; meanwhile he possessed a raison d'etre in the theoretical creation of essays on the popes of the Renaissance.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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
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
Fundamentally, the format's raison d'être is now under question.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
Substance also is the final cause, the raison d'être, of the reality of the accidental mode of being.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
