on a mission

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: 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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In 1981, Saucony went on a mission to create the arguably best running shoes. —Men's Health, 28 Mar. 2023

In January, nearly 20 of her cohorts came together in D.C., all on a mission to talk to members of Congress about the group’s number one priority: ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment. —Rachel Janfaza, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2023

Speed is a force that makes enterprise storage admins take off like fighter pilots on a mission. —Eric Herzog, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023

His plane went down while on a mission over Nanchang, China. —Brad Lendon, CNN, 10 Mar. 2023

The physician David Gorski has been on a mission since the 2000s to expose medical misinformation. —Matthew Hongoltz-hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023

The Terminator star, 75, is a man on a mission in FUBAR, his new action-comedy series debuting this spring on Netflix. —Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 27 Feb. 2023

That fall, El Obeidi hired twenty-eight operatives to set out on the streets of London, on a mission called Palladium. —Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2023

The Chinese balloon that floated across the United States this month, apparently on a mission to collect intelligence, began its journey as a curiosity. —Doyle Mcmanuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2023

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