as in spy
a person who tries secretly to obtain information for one country in the territory of another usually unfriendly country
for years we have had a mole in the enemy's national intelligence agency
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Recent Examples of mole
To sustain a positive energy balance, the mole must process enormous numbers of items per foraging session.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Six moles are served throughout the night, including for dessert.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
There are a few possibilities for non-gopher holes, including the Norway rat, voles, moles, rabbits, ground squirrels and snakes, which don’t dig their own underground burrows but take over old tunnels and improve upon them.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
The show devotes a lot of screen time to the fallout from a particular revelation and the subsequent efforts to smoke out the mole.
—Kate Lavelle, Glamour, 18 May 2026
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
Six moles are served throughout the night, including for dessert.
—Miguel Otárola, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
There are a few possibilities for non-gopher holes, including the Norway rat, voles, moles, rabbits, ground squirrels and snakes, which don’t dig their own underground burrows but take over old tunnels and improve upon them.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 18 May 2026
The show devotes a lot of screen time to the fallout from a particular revelation and the subsequent efforts to smoke out the mole.
—Kate Lavelle, Glamour, 18 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mole
Noun
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The bar was set high from here, but even the best Bond games have only superficially tackled the essence of the spy fantasy.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
28 May 2026
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New intelligence shows that nearly 500,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since Vladimir Putin launched his country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to Anne Keast-Butler, the new head of the United Kingdom's communications and cyber spy agency.—
Ramy Inocencio,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
Noun
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Known for projects like Army of the Dead and a number for DC, including Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Snyder is currently in post on The Last Photograph, a drama following an ex-DEA operative and war photographer in search of a pair of missing children in South America.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
1 June 2026
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To complete the task, Rachel needs to bring in a pair of expert extractors, Sid (Cavill) and Bronco (Gyllenhaal), and their team of covert operatives because Manny lives on an island guarded by a private army whose members are locked and loaded with high-tech weaponry.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
Noun
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During the search for the missing mother and daughter and Fieramusca, FBI agents followed Green.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
29 May 2026
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What does work is a containment pattern that treats every agent action as an external call requiring authorization at the action level, not the session level.—
Shreyans Mehta,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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“Mole.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mole. Accessed 4 Jun. 2026.
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