on a mission
idiom
: undertaking a task that one considers to be a very important duty
She's on a mission to locate her lost sister.
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Cheney helped push Bush to invade Iraq in 2003 on a mission to thwart Saddam Hussein's alleged stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction – which ended up as misinformation.
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Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
His 2001 novella God’s Debris describes a pandeistic philosophy, while his 2004 novel The Religion War tells the tale of a man on a mission to stop a calamitous war between Christians and Muslims.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Possibly the most powerful figure in French cinema, Gaëtan Bruel, who became the youngest president of the National Film Board (CNC) earlier this year at the age of 37, is on a mission to build alliances with American filmmakers, guilds and streamers.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
In the premiere’s early minutes, a young woman on a mission falls prey to a vampire and his frightening creatures known as revenants, sparking Helen’s decision to bring Guy into the fold.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
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Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
His 2001 novella God’s Debris describes a pandeistic philosophy, while his 2004 novel The Religion War tells the tale of a man on a mission to stop a calamitous war between Christians and Muslims.
—Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
Possibly the most powerful figure in French cinema, Gaëtan Bruel, who became the youngest president of the National Film Board (CNC) earlier this year at the age of 37, is on a mission to build alliances with American filmmakers, guilds and streamers.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Oct. 2025
In the premiere’s early minutes, a young woman on a mission falls prey to a vampire and his frightening creatures known as revenants, sparking Helen’s decision to bring Guy into the fold.
—Abbey White, HollywoodReporter, 27 Oct. 2025
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