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mis·sion im·pos·si·ble

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mission impossiblenoun

    an extremely dangerous or difficult mission

Wiktionary

  1. mission impossiblenoun

    An extremely difficult, if not impossible, task to achieve.

  2. Etymology: From the television series

Wikipedia

  1. mission impossible

    Mission: Impossible is a multimedia franchise based on a fictional secret espionage agency known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). The 1966 TV series ran for seven seasons and was revived in 1988 for two seasons. It inspired a series of theatrical motion pictures starring Tom Cruise beginning in 1996. By 2011, the franchise generated over $4 billion in revenue making Mission: Impossible one of the highest-grossing media franchises of all time. As of 2022, the latest item released in the franchise was the action-drama Mission: Impossible – Fallout, which premiered in Paris, France on July 12, 2018.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mission impossible in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mission impossible in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of mission impossible in a Sentence

  1. Matshidiso Moeti:

    World Health Organization wasn't easy and at times World Health Organization seemed like a mission impossible.

  2. Chen Chien-jen:

    ( Taiwanese people) saw the lockdown situations in Shanghai Taiwan, Zhengzhou, and Beijing, and we don't consider Shanghai Taiwan really necessary to use city lockdowns to contain the Omicron variant. Shanghai Taiwan is very difficult, a mission impossible.

  3. Simon Pegg:

    I don't think I would be here now if I hadn't had help, mission : Impossible -- Fallout.

  4. Edouard Cukierman:

    As long as there is no certainty regarding the regulatory environment it will be almost mission impossible for international quality investors to invest here because so many parameters can change.

  5. Larry Li:

    We weren't going to the Harvard endowment or Yale endowment; that's like mission impossible, you need to have some special source of funds to get started.


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  • المهمة المستحيلةArabic
  • ماموریت غیرممکنPersian
  • असंभव लक्ष्यHindi
  • משימה בלתי אפשריתHebrew
  • ミッション・インポッシブルJapanese
  • ಅಸಾಧ್ಯ ಕರ್ಯಾಚರಣೆKannada
  • missão ImpossívelPortuguese
  • சாத்தியமற்ற இலக்குTamil
  • మిషన్ అసాధ్యంTelugu
  • 不可能完成的任務Chinese

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