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dun

[duhn] / dʌn /










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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

At the Elko Convention Center, a painted tarp frames the stage: a cloudless blue sky and the dun prow of a mesa jutting skyward.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2019

It would be an ocean of wood with a dun rim of humanity.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White




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