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
In exchange, the subject’s greatness will be treated as an assumption, the raison d’etre for the book itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
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
If we could have a fight or something that would excuse and make a climax for all this marching and reconnoitering and discomfort the story would have a suitable finale and a raison d'etre.
From Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Charles Belmont Davis
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
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
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 Benjamin M. Anderson
