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The phrase "a mole somewhere" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to the presence of a mole, either literally (as in a skin condition or animal) or metaphorically (as in a spy or informant) in an unspecified location.
Example: "I suspect there is a mole somewhere in our organization leaking sensitive information."
Alternatives: "an informant in the ranks" or "a spy in the midst".
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(There was a mole somewhere in the government, after all).
The F.B.I. knew that there was a mole somewhere in the American intelligence community -- agents were being burned right and left -- yet pigheadedly assumed that the mole must work for the C.I.A. Indeed, for almost two years the counterspies targeted the wrong man, a C.I.A. case officer named Brian Kelley.
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You have a lot of freckles, and surely a worrying mole somewhere.
But wouldn't you rather dwell on them than on sitting below ground somewhere like a mole, munching on stale crackers for 50 years?
Another concern is that risk may be a game of whack-a-mole: hammer it down in one place and it pops up somewhere else.
The coalition could find itself in a perennial game of Whac-a-mole, striking al-Qaida in one place only to see it pop up somewhere else.
Strategies in those countries can seem like a whack-a-mole game in which destroying crops in one area leads to them popping up somewhere else.
Addressing fraud is a bit like playing whack-a-mole: as soon as you eliminate fraud in one part of the system, it pops up somewhere else".
Whack-a-Mole medicine became insanely complicated.
"It's like Whac-a-Mole.
I call it "whack-a-mole" parenting.
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