surrogate

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She described a “hesitation to apply regulatory flexibility through surrogate endpoints, natural history studies and external controls.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 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

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