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moles

noun

plural of mole

as in spies

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 moles Kristina Schiffman, the founder of UV Sense, told CBS News the company uses AI to educate people about their skin, including a tool for analyzing and tracking moles and other conditions. — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Picking may be directed at healthy skin, hair, scalp, pimples, or moles. — Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 2 Oct. 2026 Insert the stakes into the moles’ feeding runways—moles have very sensitive hearing and touch, and this makes the habitat unwelcome, Davies says. — Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 26 Aug. 2026 In Mexican cooking, those moorings are salsa, moles and their kin. — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 25 Aug. 2026 Expect regional cuisine from Jalisco and Oaxaca, with handmade tortillas, open-fire cooking, seafood, ceviches, aguachiles and traditional moles. — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 24 Aug. 2026 Animals, from burrowing moles and voles to foxes looking for food, can cause uneven lawns. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 16 Aug. 2026 One major concern is that these products can stimulate pigment cells, potentially causing changes in existing moles or the appearance of new pigmented spots. — Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 11 Aug. 2026 Trapping is the only certain method of controlling moles and gophers. — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2026

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Noun

The National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control section, which prosecutes spies, is assisting the DOJ in the case.

— Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
By the time the Dutch spies had visibility into the phone, the account had received hundreds of millions of dollars from a bank in Azerbaijan.

— Matthew Cole, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of spies

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The Administration’s tactics have reminded her of recent malicious acts in France tied to Russian operatives, such as the defacing of a Holocaust memorial with bloody handprints and the planting of a pig’s head outside a mosque.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
The vote had faced concerns of possible foreign interference after Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail reported Republican operatives had assisted top separatist leaders with their independence bid.

— Max Saltman, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026

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In December 2024, FBI agents and local police arrested the men during pre-dawn raids on their homes in Miami Beach and their parents’ home in Bal Harbour.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 28 Oct. 2026
With the sun low in the sky, protesters took to the streets of Woodland on Tuesday to demand action against federal immigration agents.

— Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 27 Oct. 2026

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