raison d'etre
Example Sentences
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Outstanding work, Desai agreed, has to be the raison d’etre of their collective efforts.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 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
Granite, granite, everywhere — highlighting the town’s economic raison d’etre and the stone artistry of its residents.
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2022
Our aspirations had long been known, as was also our judgment on the act of criminal madness by which they shook the world and robbed the alliance itself of its closest raison d'etre.
From New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various
