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surrogate

[sur-uh-gayt, -git, suhr-, sur-uh-gayt, suhr-] / ˈsɜr əˌgeɪt, -gɪt, ˈsʌr-, ˈsɜr əˌgeɪt, ˈsʌr- /


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During a search of the home last week, police also found the cremated remains of another surrogate child that had been mailed to the house; the baby died shortly after birth in Florida, Teymouri said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

He is a longtime surrogate and ally, so it isn’t entirely surprising.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Investigators believe the surrogate mothers were from around the country and they were unaware they were carrying embryos for the couple at the same time.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

In June 2023, the couple welcomed their daughter, Athena, via surrogate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

His mom treats him with a certain level of respect as the dad’s surrogate.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

As of May 2025, Zhang maintained a spreadsheet that tracked 21 children, including those born to surrogates.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Legal scholars have debated whether surrogates should pay legal damages if they fail to honor a contractual abortion provision, surrender payments remaining on the contract, or even pay back money they already received.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

I felt at times as if I wasn’t really climbing the mountain—that surrogates were doing it for me.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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 Raphael Holinshed

“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 Lord John Lauder Fountainhall

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 George Gillespie


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