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raison d'etre
noun as in reason for being
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The problem isn’t the production but the musical’s shifting raison d’être.
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Unrestrained power, of course, is the president’s raison d’être.
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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.
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Fundamentally, the format's raison d'être is now under question.
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Instead of a unified empire, the smaller kingdoms of the Heptarchy still dominate, their various dangerous machinations providing the raison d’être for the differing orders.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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