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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

It isn’t pretty; the palette runs toward dun and dull red with slashes of marine blue.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

The entire formation—a kind of immense mound—was white, from the dun desert floor to the blue of the sky.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

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

Similarly, Rich's seldom duns its 450,000 charge customers for payment.

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 Charles Bastide

Countries that ban imports made with forced labor but fail to effectively enforce their prohibitions are dunned 10%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Debtors dunned by creditors face similarly dire consequences.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019

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

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

From Economist ● Sep. 8, 2016

Carson was in his element, joking about the hassles of dunning insurance companies and mentioning, briefly, his interest in trigeminal neuralgia.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 30, 2015

Bourgeois, brevier, minion, and nonpareil, long primer, turn-ups, dunning advertisements, and reprints, back forme, imposing-stone, and locking-up, are all quite out of their way, and a sort of slang that they have no interest in.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 by Mamie Dickens