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.

Examples of on a mission in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

All of these players are on a mission to unlock high-performance inference that doesn’t require hyperscaler infrastructure or ballooning cloud costs—opening the door to entirely new economic possibilities. —Jaime Catmull, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

The 76-year-old retired state employee, former gun store owner and avid elk hunter from La Grande, Oregon, is on a mission to keep turbines and transmission towers from blighting the rural landscape. —Tony Schick, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2025

Some of the most impressive of these diffuser debuts are offerings from esteemed perfume houses and luxury brands, on a mission to elevate home fragrance through these unique showpieces. —Austa Somvichian-Clausen, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2025

Governor Newsom is on a mission to take power away from the California Citizens Redistricting Commission ... —Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for on a mission

• abolition
• acquisition
• admonition
• ammunition
• apparition
• apposition
• coalition
• competition
• composition
• definition
• deglutition
• demolition