surrogate

Example Sentences

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It proved to be successful, although a surrogate would still be needed.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

“If you’re investing in small data sets and relying on surrogate endpoints, the risk has simply become too high,” says Simos Simeonidis, managing partner and co-founder of Kos Biotechnology Partners, an investment fund.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 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

But the joy that little monkey feels for his orangutan, which he uses as shield, surrogate and playmate, is both heartbreaking and heartwarming.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

At first I thought that I might have found a surrogate father in the czar of sausage, the mogul of meat.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole