surrogate
Example Sentences
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Initially resigned to the assessment they had been given, the couple joined Surrogacy UK in the hope of finding a surrogate who would be willing to use their own eggs.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
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
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.