raison d'etre
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My raison d’etre for living is him, to take care of him, to protect him.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
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
His theoretical death has therefore long been the HBO show’s raison d’etre, even if it became increasingly unthinkable over the course of its crisp but repetitive seasons.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 10, 2023
So they feel like it is their signature, their raison d’etre.
From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2023
Yet it is not solely upon the pleasure derived from them, that finger-plays depend for their raison d’etre.
From Finger plays for nursery and kindergarten by L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman
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
Privacy A VPN’s raison d’être: encrypting your traffic to mask your internet browsing from your ISP and prevent it from throttling your connection.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 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
Fundamentally, the format's raison d'être is now under question.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
And the Memento Mori of later centuries had its raison d'être.
From H. R. by Edwin Lefevre
