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
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
How much mileage can there be in a literary magazine whose raison d’etre is just: Taco Bell?
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2023
Save for one—only one, and it becomes magnified in importance—it becomes an entire raison d'etre in itself.
From A Gift For Terra by Fox B. Holden
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
The problem isn’t the production but the musical’s shifting raison d’être.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
Unrestrained power, of course, is the president’s raison d’être.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025
The epistemological problem of the relation of the mind to reality becomes, accordingly, the raison d'être of his method.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
