raison d'être

Reborn as a private citizen, Musk began criticizing the major Republican spending bill working its way through the bowels of Congress—specifically in regards to the trillions of dollars it will add to the national debt, obliterating what was DOGE’s raison d’être.

My raison d’etre for living is him, to take care of him, to protect him.

“His whole raison d’être is to enhance the industry that’s given him so much and bring people in, bring them back to theaters. And I just applaud that on my feet.”

Mirroring the wide-ranging streaming playlists of frat bros, the claps and heys beloved by rap producers like Mustard at the time seeped into country music radio, creating a genre whose raison d’être wasn’t a celebration of rurality but a soundtrack for ragers.

I just saw James Mangold’s Bob Dylan-goes-electric history lesson “A Complete Unknown,” the music biopic that wears its subject’s impenetrable nature as its raison d’être.