surrogate

“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

The so-called baby Gabriel case began when McKenna West, a surrogate from Alaska, learned that the child she was carrying had hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a serious congenital disease.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

She became a surrogate partly to help parents who couldn’t conceive and to fund a future—“four bedrooms, five baths,” she told the Journal—for her husband, daughter and herself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Anduril is targeting 2027 for Thunder’s first flight and has completed multiple test flights with a full-scale surrogate aircraft.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Scaramouche turned out to be not only a good coach but a confidant and a surrogate father.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

First, in December, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese tech billionaire Xu Bo had used surrogates based in the U.S. to father more than 100 children.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 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

One video, which his campaign said neither he nor formal surrogates made, portrayed him as Batman lobbing tomatoes at Bass, who was dressed as the Joker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Instead of enlisting surrogates to push an uplifting vision for L.A.’s future, Pratt elevates those who speak of the city as a West Coast Chernobyl.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

These organizations had in some measure been surrogates for the ANC inside South Africa during the 1980s.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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