surrogate
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Hally is quick to take a superior tone with Sam and Willie, but the truth is that Sam has been a surrogate father to him.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
These include the theater’s posh director Meredith Potter; Stella’s bumbling surrogate father, Uncle Vernon; and the heartthrob P.L.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
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
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
Scaramouche turned out to be not only a good coach but a confidant and a surrogate father.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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