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Whether it’s a blockbuster trade that brought Doncic to L.A. or an untimely injury that sidelines the superstar guard at the most important time of the season, Redick is able to compartmentalize each day’s mission.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

This one from August 2017 shows Brockman weighing money against a mission to benefit humanity:

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Old Town, my slightly disheveled neighborhood of churches, Mexican-adjacent tchotchke shops, is where missionaries established their first mission, colonizing the town that belonged to the country south of the US border.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

He reports a sighting of an unidentified object to Nasa mission control, describing a "bogey" and "trillions of little particles" seen to the left of the spaceship.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

My dad had been a Glitcher too, but he’d died on a mission before I was born.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin