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mission

[mish-uhn] / ˈmɪʃ ən /


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Just as Dan glimpses Gretta’s raw potential, she sees his lost purpose, and the two launch a mutual rescue mission.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2026

Weir says the "big mission" for her and her team this season was to "re-platform London Fashion Week as not only a home for British design, but an engine for creativity and commercial growth".

From BBC Sep. 21, 2026

My thoughts were elsewhere as I zoomed past the spot on my household mission, but a voice from the past nudged me to reconsider.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

Since then, the mission team has been studying how the maneuver affected Roman's long-term fuel outlook.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

It’s licking my knees now, only inches from the boat’s rail, my mission just about complete.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

SpaceX has stopped selling missions where several companies share space on a Falcon 9, according to people familiar with the matter.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

This in turn could better prepare future crewed missions to the Moon, which are currently planned by both the United States and China.

From Barron's Sep. 17, 2026

They could then compare those results with lunar rocks returned to Earth from different locations by astronaut missions and unmanned spacecraft.

From Science Daily Sep. 12, 2026

Nims asked Mingma G to wait another day so they could meet once more before embarking on these separate missions, but that meeting never happened.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

In addition to losing four aircraft on that terrible night at the end of July, the Po-2s they’d been using for the past year were wearing out—each small plane had already flown about 450 missions.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein




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