surrogate
noun
a person appointed to act for another; deputy.
surrogates
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pluralof surrogate.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Bai would later be expelled from the surrogacy industry’s ethics group for her role in assisting a U.S. couple accused of deceiving surrogates into carrying more than 20 children for them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
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
