surrogate
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West agreed to serve as the gestational surrogate for Gilkar and Ahmed’s child.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Lena Dunham, creator of the hit TV series Girls, has welcomed her first child with husband Luis Felber via a surrogate.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The “Girls” actor welcomed a daughter via surrogate with her husband Luis Felber, news she shared Wednesday in an op-ed published in Vogue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
A young woman unsuited to other jobs finds a role as a gestational surrogate for the career-minded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
It’s my job—isn’t it?—my way of earning my shelter, to be this creature’s friend and surrogate flock.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Legal scholars have debated whether surrogates should pay legal damages if they fail to honor a contractual abortion provision, surrender payments remaining on the contract, or even pay back money they already received.
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
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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
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