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Olsen: Your character, Maia, in some ways is the audience surrogate, she’s kind of the most “normal” character on the show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Massie spent several days before the election using Rep. Lauren Boebert—a Republican from Colorado—as a surrogate, hoping she could reinforce his credentials at a campaign rally, despite the president’s repeated attacks on him.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, a property developer, made headlines in 1999 when he and his partner at the time, Tony, became known as Britain's first gay fathers, having become parents through a surrogate mother.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

Despite her initial misgivings, Karina now plans to have as many surrogate babies as her body will allow to save up to buy a home.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

It was a wind that offered no relief from the heat, but it caught Lillian’s hair and pushed it softly back, an auburn shining pennant, a surrogate windsock, revealing a long, elegant neck.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The truth where we and our contemporary stage surrogates are concerned is somewhat more constrained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

Numerous Black elected officials have campaigned and served as surrogates for him, including influential Black Democrats Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and state Sen. Royce West of Dallas.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

Instead, much of the heavy lifting came from surrogates.

From Slate ● May 19, 2026

In the UK, surrogacy arrangements are more informal and often arranged either through friends, family, or non-profit organisations which match intended parents with surrogates.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

These organizations had in some measure been surrogates for the ANC inside South Africa during the 1980s.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

It is about past glories, power transference, surrogated combat and unconscious contests of generation and gender.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2011

The lamentable distresse and pitifull perplexitie of the Britains after their ouerthrow, Domitian enuieth Agricola the glorie of his victories, he is subtilie depriued of his deputiship, and Cneus Trebellius surrogated in his roome.

From Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England by Holinshed, Raphael

“Do I understand that it’s likely that people who’ve been involved in the center of this for some time, and have been surrogating on television, are likely front-runners? I would say that’s likely, yes.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2016

Whence I had recourse to Chilperick, whom the peaple, tho legittime heir, first deposed then cowed him, and thrust him in a Monastry surrogating Pepin his brother in his roome.

From Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676 by Fountainhall, John Lauder, Lord

But the Bishop returneth to another example in Solomon, which is the putting of Abiathar, the chief priest, from his office, and surrogating of another in his place.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George