surrogate

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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

"It's a sacred position to be someone's parent and I feel like their surrogate dad - I am their DIY dad, and that is a privilege."

From BBC • Feb. 23, 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

The cub’s selfish decisions lead to the tree laying itself across a chasm to save its surrogate child.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

If McCandless felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees, most of whom lived in Westerberg's Carthage home.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer