raison d'être
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It is also working to build the type of cutting-edge AI agents that some investors think threaten its entire raison d’être.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 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
Cricket-matches are often the raison d'être of a garden-party, rendering it popular with both ladies and gentlemen.
From Manners and Rules of Good Society or Solecisms to be Avoided by Anonymous
"But you also knew that his raison d'etre was to sort of catch you in the off moment."
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
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
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
So they feel like it is their signature, their raison d’etre.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2023
Whereas the great distance at which these Dominions are situated imposes upon them the necessity of creating their own defensive forces, a separate Irish Navy or Army would have no raison d'etre.
From The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan
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