How to Use mission creep in a Sentence

mission creep

noun
  • But there were already signs of mission creep.
    — Simon Akam, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • In the end, the case for staying is a case to wait for more mission creep.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
  • This monetary mission creep, as critics see it, is turning heads around the globe.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Among his critiques was that the Fed had grown too big and experienced mission creep.
    — Steve Liesman, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Over time, the risk of mission creep will rise, as will the temptation to invest in riskier assets.
    — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • For government regulators, mission creep like that is to die for.
    — WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • Amid disparate motives and seething grudges, mission creep set in and the coup evolved into an assassination.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • Amid disparate motives and seething grudges, mission creep set in and the coup evolved into an assassination.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
  • Second, Boyle argues, drones promote mission creep, displacing our goals.
    — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 June 2020
  • That’s because the Apple Watch—not just the Ultra—suffers from a chronic case of mission creep.
    — Adrienne So, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2022
  • This results in mission creep if managers or leaders focus heavily on one particular pet project.
    — Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Any time the United States gets involved in backing insurgencies, there is the danger of mission creep.
    — Lindsey O'Rourke, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The growth in spending came not because the city is doing a better job of providing basic services, but because of mission creep on new programs that have failed to achieve their goals.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • But in the last four years, the agency has veered off track—doubling in size and turning into a sprawling leviathan plagued by mission creep, financial mismanagement, and waste.
    — Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Due to decades of shortsighted political decisions, the police have been subjected to endless mission creep.
    — WSJ, 11 June 2020
  • Defenders of the Silicon Valley faith will grumble about mission creep in Brussels.
    — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2019
  • 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 Utah attempted murder notwithstanding, there was little mission creep toward trivial crimes.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • For those involved in Strictly’s creation, the misconduct scandal is symbolic of mission creep from the show’s original vision.
    — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 20 July 2024
  • Image For starters, there is concern about mission creep and the militarization of a civilian security challenge.
    — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • The lack of strong leadership and clear focus has led to mission creep, with no single thing being done particularly well, and decisions being hindered by slow processes.
    — Alexander S. Blume, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Less obvious, but just as important, was Turkey’s unease with the United States’ mission creep in Syria.
    — Aaron Stein, Foreign Affairs, 22 Jan. 2019

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