raison d'etre

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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

Not far away, at Pepa Bar a Vins, irreverence was the raison d’être.

From Salon

The problem isn’t the production but the musical’s shifting raison d’être.

From Los Angeles Times

Unrestrained power, of course, is the president’s raison d’être.

From Salon

Lowell, spurned in his romantic life and treated as a black sheep by his dynastic family, found in Mars a calling, a raison d’être.

From Los Angeles Times