surrogate
Example Sentences
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After meeting prospective surrogate Annie Peverelle at an earlier Surrogacy UK event, they got to know each other and Peverelle offered to carry the couple's baby for them.
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
We also have healthcare surrogate documents in case we become ill.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026
How the only way for them to have a child was a surrogate.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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