Thesaurus results for MISSIONS

missions

noun

plural of mission

as in assignments

a specific task with which a person or group is charged your mission is to clean up the house before company arrives

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Recent Examples of missions Meanwhile, South Korea selected the platform for intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance missions with its Navy and Marine Corps, with deployment expected later this decade. —

Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 6 June 2026 These numerous flights took a big workload and freed up other pilots for combat missions. —

William Lambers, Hartford Courant, 6 June 2026 Special commando units were also deployed to the location and carried out intelligence-gathering missions and drone operations, the other two sources said, giving Israel a valuable perch from which to see into northern Iran during the war. —

Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 5 June 2026 SpaceX’s Starship will eventually double that power, but has to date only performed suborbital test missions. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2026 The new commercial system, called the Mars Telecommunications Network, is expected to provide higher throughput and broader coverage for NASA’s future missions to the red planet. —

Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 4 June 2026 The two missions raised the total number of active Starlink satellites in orbit to over 10,500 spacecraft, out of the more than 12,162 launched since 2019. —

Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 4 June 2026 One of his missions is to end the stigma that still surrounds people with HIV. —

Joe Donlon, CBS News, 4 June 2026 The State Department said the two countries exchanged notes to finalize an understanding that would stabilize diplomatic banking operations for each other's missions. —

Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025

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They were gathered to learn the crew assignments for Artemis 3, the agency's next mission progressing its efforts to return astronauts to the moon.

— Josh Dinner, Space.com, 12 June 2026
According to a 2025 Fact Sheet by the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), at a minimum, 411,549 positions were either unfilled or filled by teachers not fully certified for their assignments, representing about 1 in 8 of all teaching positions nationally.

— Read Alliance, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026