How to Use surrogate mother in a Sentence
surrogate mother
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The surrogate mother and the twins all died a day away from a full-term, scheduled C-section.
—Nr Interview, National Review, 9 Dec. 2017
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In fact, Dani saves Grace as a child and becomes her surrogate mother.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
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The process worked, a surrogate mother was found and then on June 28, their son Mack was born -- arriving at a healthy 7 pounds, 7 ounces.
—Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 17 July 2023
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The cubs, one male and one female, were born on Wednesday at the Ohio zoo to their surrogate mother Izzy, a 3-year-old cheetah and first-time mom.
—CBS News, 25 Feb. 2020
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The team then transplanted the egg back inside the horse, which acted as a surrogate mother.
—Jonathan Wosen San Diego Union-Tribune, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
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Ania, 26, who has two children of her own, is pregnant as a surrogate mother for the second time.
—New York Times, 12 Mar. 2022
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This will be the Portuguese superstar's first child not to be born by a surrogate mother.
—SI.com, 29 Oct. 2017
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In 2019, the Boeckmanns, who’ve been married nearly a decade, had had a daughter by a surrogate mother in Ukraine.
—Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
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She and Yuri slept in the same bed at the home of a Russian emigre who sometimes served as a surrogate mother and sometimes threatened to evict them.
—Michael Mewshaw, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2017
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Debbie was the one, though, who became like a surrogate mother.
—Sarah Viren, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023
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Instead, the couple turned to a surrogate mother to conceive their second child, a son who is now 19.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
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Long played her mother in the film—and instantly became something of a surrogate mother to the young actress on her first big job.
—Rivea Ruff, Essence, 16 Mar. 2022
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The answer was to turn some of the cows into surrogate mothers for others looking to improve the genetics of their herds.
—Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 13 Mar. 2018
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News of the raid comes four months after a surrogate mother gave birth in China to a boy whose parents had died four years earlier in a car crash.
—Mike Ives, New York Times, 25 June 2018
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Coffey and his husband welcomed to the world their son Tūtānekai Smith-Coffey, born via surrogate mother, last month.
—Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2019
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Now, that surrogate mother is trapped in a maternity ward in a city in Russia’s crosshairs.
—Isabel Coles, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2022
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Moira has taken care of Nichole and been Nichole's surrogate mother for much longer than June has been in Nichole's life.
—Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2021
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Of these surrogate mother monkeys, 12 became pregnant, and 6 gave birth to live young.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
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The cloned Maya is now living with her beagle surrogate mother, and will later be housed in Harbin Polarland, open to the public.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
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Each boy was conceived with donor eggs and the sperm from a different father, but born by the same surrogate mother in September 2016.
—Anne Branigin, The Root, 24 Jan. 2018
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In many ways the case was most interesting for what CFC was not charged for: arranging the services of surrogate mothers.
—Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
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Fu had a child last year with the help of a surrogate mother in the US, according to one unnamed source cited in the FT report, which did not reveal the identity of the father.
—Yong Xiong, CNN, 27 Sep. 2023
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Bernice Sadie Brown, who has experienced a lifetime of love and loss, is a surrogate mother for Frankie.
—John Benson, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2019
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The egg will then contain an exact copy of the donor’s genome, and if it is implanted into a surrogate mother, the eventual offspring will be a clone.
—Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2018
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For now, the SeaLife Center staffers are adjusting to life as the surrogate mothers for seven sea otters.
—Alaska Dispatch News, 7 May 2016
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Two cheetah cubs have been born via in vitro fertilization to a surrogate mother for the first time ever at the Columbus Zoo.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 25 Feb. 2020
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First, Kurt needs at least another year with his surrogate mother.
—Jonathan Wosen San Diego Union-Tribune, Star Tribune, 22 Oct. 2020
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Ermengarde, the school dunce, Lottie, the school crybaby, and Becky, the scullery maid, quickly find a defender, surrogate mother, and friend in Sara.
—Sarah Schutte, National Review, 13 Mar. 2022
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Becky, meanwhile, is applying to be a surrogate mother for a well-to-do woman -- played by Sarah Chalke, who took over for Goranson as Becky in the show's original run.
—The New York Times, cleveland.com, 26 Mar. 2018
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This means that even a mouse-size marsupial could serve as a surrogate mother for a much larger adult animal like the thylacine, at least in the early stages.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 16 Aug. 2022
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