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surrogate

[sur-uh-geyt, -git, suhr-, sur-uh-geyt, suhr-] / ˈsɜr əˌgeɪt, -gɪt, ˈsʌr-, ˈsɜr əˌgeɪt, ˈsʌr- /


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In June 2023, the couple welcomed their daughter, Athena, via surrogate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Justice Elena Kagan turned away an emergency request from an Alaskan surrogate who had sought custody of the baby boy after a rift with his genetic parents, who live in California.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Khanna was a surrogate and national co-chair in Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign.

From Salon ● Sep. 22, 2026

She claims that parents who ask a surrogate to terminate a pregnancy—even when the surrogate explicitly agreed that such a request could be made—could lose their parental rights simply by making that request.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

He wasn't just losing his sister; he was losing his surrogate mom.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

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

The truth where we and our contemporary stage surrogates are concerned is somewhat more constrained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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

Each assemblage is poised in the flow of solar energy, tapping off energy from metabolic surrogates of the sun.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

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

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




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