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were surrogate

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To replace or substitute something with something else; appoint a successor.

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The tests used were surrogate final end point correlation, receiver operating characteristic curves to discriminate healers from nonhealers, validation tests using logistic regression models, and the proportion-mediated estimation.

The presenters were surrogate elder siblings, perhaps back from university to run a summer camp.

Their 48-year marriage was childless; Harvard men were surrogate sons.

Heidi had trusted her coaches and trainers as if they were surrogate parents.

The doctor assured her that these were surrogate father figures, so there was nothing "wrong" with her red-blooded, heterosexual boy.

In the absence of a father who supported him, he sought encouragement and advice from a series of men he admits were "surrogate father figures", beginning in his teens with Tex Vinyard in his hometown of Freehold, New Jersey.

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Crime and welfare were surrogates for race.

All of whom were surrogates for Ronnie Kray.

For most gymnasts, their coaches are surrogate fathers or mothers.

Understand that excessive consumption is surrogate fulfilment,' he said.

He was surrogate father, mentor, trouble-solver, and dear friend.

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