Thesaurus results for SURROGATES

surrogates

noun

plural of surrogate

as in substitutes

a person or thing that fulfills the role of someone or something else The children's aunt acted as a surrogate for their late mother.

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Recent Examples of surrogates One of the issues raised by the New Yorker story is that there are surrogacy agencies that connect parents and potential surrogates. — Ariana Aspuru, Vox, 14 Oct. 2026 Jamie Majerus, the civil attorney representing five surrogates suing Xuan and Zhang for fraud, has alleged in court filings that the couple also presented an attorney of their choosing to the mothers. — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 Much of the energy this election season — the most aggressive ad buys, the biggest-name surrogates — has been with the congressional midterms. — New York Times, 12 Oct. 2026 Many of the surrogates have claimed they were misled during the process and weren't aware of the other women carrying babies for the same couple. — Austin Turner, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2026 Spin zone Georgia’s top candidates usually leave the spin room sales pitch to their surrogates. — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 7 Oct. 2026 The women, many of whom were first-time surrogates, say they were given misleading or incomplete information about the couple’s family situation and intentions. — ABC News, 6 Oct. 2026 What if third parties—egg donors or surrogates, for example—are involved? — Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026 When clients or surrogates travel to California for important medical milestones, Tang and Sonnenberg are often there themselves—arranging schedules, accompanying appointments, and ensuring that days defined by medicine retain a sense of humanity. — Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 29 Sep. 2026

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Liverpool coach Andoni Iraola dropped Virgil van Dijk to the substitutes’ bench with French defender Jérémy Jacquet starting.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
Some consumers searched for substitutes, and ethanol was an answer then.

— Wael Mahdi, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of substitutes

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Bombas Return Policy Bombas’ Happiness Guarantee covers free returns, exchanges, and replacements—including free shipping.

— Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 13 Oct. 2026
When a code set changes underneath a policy, somebody has to map which of 10 replacements carries the standing the original had, and by default, that is nobody’s job.

— JP Montoya, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of replacements

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Cryptography is embedded throughout applications, identity platforms, APIs, cloud services, firewalls, load balancers, proxies, certificate authorities, VPNs and software libraries.

— Scott Alldridge, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Britain says some of them have ended up acting as unwitting proxies for foreign states such as Iran or Russia.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2026

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