amputate
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Her husband, Phil, has said that surgeons had been forced to amputate both her legs in an effort to save her.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
Woodhall would amputate more than 100 limbs, plus “many hands, and fingers,” in the next 25 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Although he was given many stitches that night, veterinarians ultimately decided it would be necessary to amputate the leg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025
Another patient in north Wales almost had the wrong toe removed during surgery to amputate two others.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2024
I also learned that Marley had been a Rastafarian, and that Rastafari believe in a “whole body,” which is why he had refused surgery to amputate the toe.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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Flimsy characterization amputates the play just short of greatness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Bustamante insisted that a voter could not remove the ink and vote more than once "unless he amputates a finger, and if he does, I'll be delighted to let him vote two times, even ten."
From Time Magazine Archive
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He gives them scene transplants or amputates a character or administers dialogue transfusions, but somehow these measures never restore these dramas to robust health.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Is the surgeon guilty of wrong who amputates a limb to preserve life?
From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott
All of us were amputates, or seriously wounded.
From Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Charles Augustus Fuller
Fellow fishermen carried him from the riverbank and transported him to a hospital, where doctors amputated his hand just above the wrist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
It is understood the letter was sent to Markle, 82, while he was in hospital in the Philippines after having his leg amputated.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Archival discoveries, including a long-forgotten 19th-century autobiography, are changing how historians understand Shadrack Byfield, an English veteran of the War of 1812 who buried his own amputated arm and later created a custom prosthesis.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
The 17-year-old has since had her leg amputated, joining hundreds more Venezuelans who lost limbs during the devastating twin tremors on June 24.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
Block above block, each story smaller than the one below, the tall houses rose like stepped and amputated pyramids into the blue sky.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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Instead of amputating her arm to stop the spread of cancer, as her doctors urged her to do, Milla turns to a severely restricted diet consisting primarily of juice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
Procedures that have been performed by staff at Al Shifa under such circumstances have included amputating limbs and fingers, stitching up serious wounds, and treating serious burns, said Abu Selmeyah, without elaborating.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2023
A staph infection meant amputating her left foot below the knee in 2017.
From Washington Times ● May 4, 2023
Later, doctors recommended amputating his left leg, his mother said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2022
“Yeah, my big toe. If I wasn’t wearing shoes, they’d be amputating this toe sure as hell.”
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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