surrogate
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“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
"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
We also have healthcare surrogate documents in case we become ill.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026
He reaches for the crowbar, but, as a surrogate big brother, I hold it out of reach, indicating that’s enough.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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