raison d'être
Example Sentences
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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
How much mileage can there be in a literary magazine whose raison d’etre is just: Taco Bell?
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2023
“We will flourish until our raison d’etre for being people’s lawyers ceases.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 15, 2022
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
The question was sufficiently important to demand an experimental solution; hence the raison d'etre of the present demonstration.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887 by Various
