surrogate

Example Sentences

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It proved to be successful, although a surrogate would still be needed.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

She described a “hesitation to apply regulatory flexibility through surrogate endpoints, natural history studies and external controls.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

So being a single father by choice is a rarer phenomenon, and doing so via gestational surrogacy, in which the surrogate mother bears no genetic link to the child she carries, is rarer yet.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

But the joy that little monkey feels for his orangutan, which he uses as shield, surrogate and playmate, is both heartbreaking and heartwarming.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

Pumpkin was amiable to every horse he met and became a surrogate parent to the flighty ones.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand