I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
surrogate mother
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
father
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His surrogate father figure was killed.
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They merely suffered from unresolved Oedipal complexes, and were attacking universities as a surrogate father .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The old couple across the street were like surrogate grandparents to me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Both his sense of need and his surrogate conscience link him however tenuously, with a social universe.
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Girls are fascinated by people and treat their toys as surrogate people.
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His dancers were his family, surrogate children whom he fed, educated and drove mercilessly as artists.
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Regional governments have started to issue their own kinds of surrogate money.
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They merely suffered from unresolved Oedipal complexes, and were attacking universities as a surrogate father.
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We became a surrogate mirror reflecting back our approval.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The President's surrogates have been campaigning for him nonstop.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As Dole and Kemp headed across the country, the team of surrogates was making its maiden voyage in California.
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But I have to resist trying to make them surrogates of me.
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Civilization itself, in fact, is a pathological surrogate for unconscious infantile disappointments.
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Deaver also appeared to act as a messenger between the First lady and her husband, and sometimes even as a surrogate .
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Then, one night when his white surrogate left the studio, Winslow read part of his own Script on the air.
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This special class acted as their surrogates for over 400 years.