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Many have amputated limbs, including some who are war veterans.

From Washington Post • Jan. 16, 2023

To football players who rush to return from injury, to those who have amputated fingers and made other rash decisions just get back on the field, Cravens’s struggles make no sense.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2017

Keith Tebbit from Dunstable was disqualified after he was discovered to have amputated both his legs.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2012

They, doubtless, would gladly have amputated their legs, if the ministers had so decreed, and they apologized to the world every time an unforseen circumstance uncovered a portion of these offensive legs.

From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)

There was no need of his dying even though it might have been necessary to have amputated his arm higher up.

From The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland by Pearson, George