raison d'être

Couple the above with ExpressVPN’s pretty stringent privacy policy, you begin to understand that ExpressVPN is more of an “old school” VPN provider, for which security and privacy are a VPN’s raison d’être.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026

The raison d’être for all things art-related happening here in late February.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

There you have the raison d'etre, probably, of the thirteen-decade period.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris