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surrogate

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


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Now with the Vogue article, the “Too Much” creator explains her experience finding a surrogate she could trust.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

These new tools could let osteoarthritis meet the third condition: a surrogate endpoint, meaning an MRI scan or blood-test result likely to predict whether a patient’s joint is improving.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Monegasque Leclerc has become the surrogate son of the Scuderia since his arrival in 2019, carrying the hopes of the tifosi on his shoulders for the past eight seasons.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

“The Office,” with its belief in finding salvation and love through the surrogate family at your soul-sucking work job, was millennial, but so was the shaggy anti-ambition of “Workaholics.”

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

Next to the dead surrogate mother was a young bonobo.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

Court records paint Zhou as coming from a relatively modest background, a contrast to the many wealthy Chinese elites who seek out U.S. surrogates.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 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

Each assemblage is poised in the flow of solar energy, tapping off energy from metabolic surrogates of the sun.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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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