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But developers won’t know it until state officials dun them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

One of this crew, no surprise, ends up dead before the night is over, and an unusually somber Poirot must figure out whodunit, before he himself gets dun.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

“It would go dun dun dun dun,” Bellemeur, 99, says quietly as she sits in her Pasadena retirement home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

The episode ends with intrigue on Beverly’s ship when Riker and Picard meet — dun, dun, dun — her son.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless world, fading slowly into a featureless, colourless gloom.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

This unexpected shape cuts through the woods’ muted greens and duns, stirring hikers from ambling reveries, reminding them that they move through forests that once held much mightier trees.

From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2020

There are now more than a thousand designs, with threads blending in the traditional dull duns, purples and ochres of the Scottish Highlands, to brash patterns with bright reds, pinks and yellows.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

For months Turkey has been living hand-to-mouth, paying such urgent bills as last June's oil-company duns out of current earnings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since the Hoover Moratorium ended in 1932, the U. S. State Department has been sending semiannual duns to those governments which have defaulted on debts totaling $11,000,000,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

While the duns were crowding at the door, the dying man dreamed that his latest scheme would infallibly make him wealthy.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles

In some cases, the hospitals referred the individuals to bill collectors who dunned them for the payments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019

He had to be dunned for payments and lost three cellphones.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018

Mr. Pearce also ruled that employees who had resigned their union membership after their labor contract expired could be dunned for back dues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2018

Like 55% of their college-educated peers, the partygoers carry student loan debt; unlike their less fortunate peers, they’re not being dunned but wined and dined by their lender, the venture-capital-backed CommonBond.

From Forbes ● Dec. 10, 2014

Still, she never dunned me and was as generous with her servings of food during mealtime as ever.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

After the death of his former longtime lover Robert, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Arthur learns that probate court is dunning him for years of back rent in Robert’s San Francisco home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2022

While she does not know that person’s motive, she has a strong objection to dunning co-workers to contribute to gifts — doubly so when the recipient is the boss.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022

Again, Wray’s explanatory discretion is an advantage, letting him bypass the hysteria of inquiry, the dunning “Why?” that tends to dominate in cases of Western converts to Islam.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

The Irish see little point in dunning Apple for back taxes.

From Economist ● Sep. 8, 2016

And shure, boys, what would the ould masther do, and what would Mr. Thady do without the rint among ye,—an' ould Flannelly dunning about him with his bonds, and his bills and morgidges?

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Trollope, Anthony