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
Outstanding work, Desai agreed, has to be the raison d’etre of their collective efforts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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
Some golden day, of course, he would have many millions; meanwhile he possessed a raison d'etre in the theoretical creation of essays on the popes of the Renaissance.
From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
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
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
Several paths converged at the village, and these we followed up until each gradually came to an end—bundles and strips of rattan lying along them, showing plainly their raison d'être.
From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by C. Boden Kloss
