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Examples of mission creep in a Sentence
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Amid disparate motives and seething grudges, mission creep set in and the coup evolved into an assassination.
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Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
Along with keeping Home Assistant funded and secure from buy-outs or mission creep, the foundation intends to help fund and collaborate with external projects crucial to Home Assistant, like Z-Wave JS and Zigbee2MQTT.
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Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2024
Any time the United States gets involved in backing insurgencies, there is the danger of mission creep.
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Lindsey O'Rourke, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2022
That is what happened to the United States in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, where mission creep allowed limited objectives to give way to murkier, more ambitious goals.
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Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
But when launched in early June, Operation Peace for Galilee was immediately affected by mission creep and groupthink.
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Sarah E. Parkinson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Nov. 2023
Two of the likely consequences of mission creep would be great strains within NATO and greater desperation by Putin.
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Michael Krepon, Forbes, 2 May 2022
This is related to the concept of mission creep, which also describes the expansion of a project beyond its original scope.
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Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 11 Sep. 2023
The mission creep of replay review, though, may be nothing compared to what umpires now face in the 2023 season, which is shaping up to be the most transformational in M.L.B. history.
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Devin Gordon, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1991, in the meaning defined above
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“Mission creep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mission%20creep. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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