amputate
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He did his best to amputate above the sickly parts in the hope of saving the patient’s life.
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
Days later she had to have surgery to amputate her leg above the knee.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
Shaymaa was rushed to Nasser Hospital, where doctors quickly decided to amputate.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
"They're not gonna amputate it, baby. They're gonna fix it," she assured her.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
Flimsy characterization amputates the play just short of greatness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
He tries to kindle a fire When it's forty-five below; He aims to chop at a log And amputates his toe; He hobbles back to the shack And feebly cries out "yah"!
From Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads by Various
It amputates his imagination at its tap root.
From The Lost Art of Reading by Gerald Stanley Lee
A nine-year-old boy who had his foot amputated as a toddler hopes he has become the youngest amputee to complete the tallest peaks in Wales, Scotland and England in less than 24 hours.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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
His four brothers also fought in World War Two, one of whom had a leg amputated.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Among those taken in are a blind swan, an eagle with an amputated wing and a stork that suffered a concussion during an air attack.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Half a dozen fingers pointed at the amputated wheel--he stared at it for a moment and then looked upward as though he suspected that it had dropped from the sky.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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
In 2012, his right hand had become so badly infected following years of gout that it required amputating.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2022
For several days, it was uncertain whether he would live, and doctors contemplated amputating his arm.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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