Examples of MDMA in a Sentence

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While the party was still raging, Rick Doblin championed MDMA’s therapeutic potential, launching a 30-year fight for its decriminalization. John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025 Investigators searched his Waterbury residence that day and seized a Ruger 57 semiautomatic pistol, a Glock 31 semiautomatic pistol, a Ruger LCP handgun, ammunition, approximately 89 grams of cocaine, and pills containing MDMA, according to federal officials. Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2025 In Looking Forward, the pop star, Oliver, takes cocaine, MDMA, and pills, sexts other women, and threatens suicide if Mallory were to leave him. Federico Fahsbender, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2025 Prosecutors said the pair were given a fatal cocktail of drugs — made up of cocaine, fentanyl, ketamine, heroin, MDMA and the date rape drug GBH — before they were dumped outside two different hospitals some 12 hours later. Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 5 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for MDMA

Word History

Etymology

methylene + di- + methamphetamine

First Known Use

1978, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of MDMA was in 1978

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“MDMA.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/MDMA. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.

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