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
Outstanding work, Desai agreed, has to be the raison d’etre of their collective efforts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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
Watch a monkey and you cannot enumerate the things he does, cannot discover the stimuli to which he reacts, cannot conceive the raison d'etre of his pursuits.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by Thomson, J. Arthur
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
Not far away, at Pepa Bar a Vins, irreverence was the raison d’être.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2025
The problem isn’t the production but the musical’s shifting raison d’être.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
Fundamentally, the format's raison d'être is now under question.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
If all things, including gold, were equally saleable, there would be no raison d'être for money, and gold would have only the value that comes from its commodity functions.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
