How to Use DES in a Sentence

DES

noun

• The drug was banned in 1971 after it was found to be causing extremely rare vaginal cancers in young women whose mothers had taken DES during pregnancy.
  — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
• Along with vaginal and breast cancers, women exposed to DES also sometimes suffered from vaginal, cervical, and uterine abnormalities, as well as infertility and ectopic pregnancies.
  — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
• From 1945 to 1971, pregnant mothers who wanted to prevent miscarriages were prescribed the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol (DES).
  — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 27 Apr. 2026
• Astronomers combine these measurements with other dark energy and matter distribution studies, including the Dark Energy Survey (DES) measurements of distant supernovae and maps of the cosmic microwave background light left over from the dawn of the universe.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2025
• From 2013 to 2019, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) team repeatedly imaged a large section of Earth’s southern sky to collect the positions, colours and shapes of around 150 million galaxies.
  — Nature Magazine, Scientific American, 31 Jan. 2026
• This year’s major advance comes from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) in Chile and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) in Arizona.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2025