"They are surrogates for the American economy".
Wire and sheets of metal, often crumpled, are surrogates for paint.
One has the sense that both characters are surrogates for Murdoch himself and that this baggy, sentimental but deeply charming film is just thinly veiled autobiography.
The settings for much of The Corrections and Freedom are surrogates for his home town: St Jude (a fictional location) and St Paul (an actual one), respectively.
To pass the time, Burt engages Reyes and Scully in a game of checkers, whose colors (red & black) are surrogates for Scully (a redhead) and Reyes (a brunette).
It is frequently unclear if prognostic gene expression models are surrogates for underlying wider molecular or biological phenotypes, or simply a combination of individual prognostic genes.
The exposure markers used here, i.e. carbon load and distances from major road, are surrogates for exposure to traffic-related air pollution.
1. Errors are surrogates for adverse events.
Thus, we believe that the exposure parameters are surrogates for chronic vitamin D status.
By contrast, others have demonstrated variable effects on physiological indices that are surrogates for organ perfusion [ 3, 4].
