surrogate

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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

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

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

We also have healthcare surrogate documents in case we become ill.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026

She had two moms, a real one and a surrogate, and she’d chosen the surrogate.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer