raison d'etre

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But, for smaller companies whose AI offerings are their raison d’être, there are pros and cons of the new era.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Unrestrained power, of course, is the president’s raison d’être.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

Fundamentally, the format's raison d'être is now under question.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 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 Kloss, C. Boden