How to Use mission creep in a Sentence

mission creep

noun
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  • In the end, the case for staying is a case to wait for more mission creep.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The impact of this mental-health mission creep is clear.
    — Carolyn D. Gorman, National Review, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Over time, the risk of mission creep will rise, as will the temptation to invest in riskier assets.
    — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
  • This monetary mission creep, as critics see it, is turning heads around the globe.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Another way of looking at this is that, for now, mission creep is more of a risk than the actual mission.
    — Geoff Manaugh, The Atlantic, 8 June 2018
  • Some experts fear mission creep, while others see this as a chance to finally have our laws catch up with the digital age.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 16 May 2020
  • The creature experiences its own sort of mission creep.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
  • And the regulatory mission creep at the SEC (and, in all probability, the Fed) will not stop with climate.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 Nov. 2021
  • For government regulators, mission creep like that is to die for.
    — WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Tucker Carlson, meanwhile, have questioned where money for Ukraine is going and warned of ‘mission creep’ in U.S. support.
    — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Calling the absence of something a success is the kind of logic that keeps America fighting the same war for two decades and witnessing the mission creep to remote outposts in Niger.
    — Kevin Maurer, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2022
  • This is related to the concept of mission creep, which also describes the expansion of a project beyond its original scope.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Defenders of the Silicon Valley faith will grumble about mission creep in Brussels.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2019
  • 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.
    — Devin Gordon, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In terms of a directly painterly manifestation that isn’t weighed down by conceptual mission creep, Thompson’s show may remind viewers of what drew them to art in the first place.
    — Christopher Mosley, Dallas News, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The pursuit of a decisive win by Ukraine and Putin’s decisive loss would constitute another example of mission creep.
    — Michael Krepon, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Second, Boyle argues, drones promote mission creep, displacing our goals.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2020
  • The mission creep is enabled by a sense that central banks can and should do more, given their firepower and competence compared with some other government officials.
    — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The list is a classic example of Washington mission creep and the unintended consequences that can result when misguided policies refuse to die.
    — Joshua Keating, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
  • This path is offered as an alternative to retaining a small counterterrorism presence that will inevitably fall prey to mission creep.
    — Adam Weinstein, Time, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Due to decades of shortsighted political decisions, the police have been subjected to endless mission creep.
    — WSJ, 11 June 2020
  • Fears that a comprehensive approach to disease prevention coordinated by the White House would fuel mission creep take a myopic view of how complex public health threats evolve.
    — Arush Lal, STAT, 23 Feb. 2022
  • Metro has expanded its role in recent years into addressing systemic regional issues like houselessness and must guard against mission creep.
    — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2020
  • In turn, the Fed should halt its mission creep into fiscal policy and stay out of unrelated partisan congressional debate.
    — Jeb Hensarling, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The Utah attempted murder notwithstanding, there was little mission creep toward trivial crimes.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Finnish officials say that Mr. Niinisto sheds his diplomatic modesty in private, and is known for his long political memory, cutting style and mission creep.
    — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2022
  • But campaigns intended to protect the most vulnerable have had a tendency toward mission creep, Jecker points out, consuming more doses than first planned, and sharpening global inequity.
    — Maryn McKenna, Wired, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Continually measuring results against a constant yardstick of your original goals and vision prevents you from wasting valuable resources on mission creep.
    — Thom Gruhler, Forbes, 13 May 2021
  • Telecom lobbyists have suggested the proposals create the possibility of mission creep away from a focus on quickly answering crisis calls.
    — Ryan Tracy, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Moderates warned traditionalists of mission creep and overreach.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 22 June 2021

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