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  • If McCandless felt estranged from his parents and siblings, he found a surrogate family in Westerberg and his employees, most of whom lived in Westerberg's Carthage home.  (source)
    surrogate = substitute
  • They took her up like a surrogate daughter and brought her with them to revival meetings and to snake-handling services over in Jolo.  (source)
  • I even went so far as to offer to be a surrogate and carry a baby for her.  (source)
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  • In some respects, Fredi and Allan were surrogate parents, constantly advising him and pushing him to do better.  (source)
    surrogate = substitute
  • See, this opens up the possibility of visual surrogates.†  (source)
    surrogates = people (or things) taking the place of another
  • It's the alcohol they put in his surrogate.  (source)
    surrogate = short for blood-surrogate in this novel (blood substitute)
  • They were surrogates for the family Marko and his wife never had.†  (source)
    surrogates = people (or things) taking the place of another
  • I suspected the Dementor attack might have awoken her to the dangers of having you as a surrogate son.†  (source)
    surrogate = someone (or something) taking the place of another
  • These organizations had in some measure been surrogates for the ANC inside South Africa during the 1980s.†  (source)
    surrogates = people (or things) taking the place of another
  • And he was not at morning meeting on that February day, just before spring vacation; but the surrogate he had left onstage was grotesquely capable of holding our attention.†  (source)
    surrogate = someone (or something) taking the place of another
  • Surrogates will do, I suppose.†  (source)
    Surrogates = people (or things) taking the place of another
  • It was Hearth, my fellow homeless dude and surrogate "mom."†  (source)
    surrogate = someone (or something) taking the place of another
  • Already the mayor was feeling the heat; you could tell, because his surrogates on the council and the boards of Estimate and Education had begun quietly assailing Kwang for his interest in providing tax vouchers for bilingual education, to have English Only in the schools but subsidize native language study outside.†  (source)
    surrogates = people (or things) taking the place of another
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