surrogate

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The vice-president is the "perfect surrogate" in these high-stakes negotiations because of "his firm understanding of President Trump's goals", said Mark Bednar, who worked on the Trump-Vance transition team.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

Under the accelerated approval pathway, the FDA is supposed to assess improvement based on so-called surrogate endpoints that predict real-world efficacy—for instance, reduced levels of a protein caused by a rare disease.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 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

“The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par.”

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley