dun
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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
Instead of the lush, even green of the surrounding pastures, the vegetation here was a mottled dun, many-textured, thin and low to the ground.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
Dun dun duuuun: The dark side of Silicon Valley philanthropy is finally getting some attention.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2018
The round little man looked splendid in his new robes, with their broad bands of dun and butternut and narrow stripes of red.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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
A self-styled inventor, he arranges elaborate booby-traps for duns; she collects cats.
From Time Magazine Archive
For one thing, at some point trout usually start eating the duns, so I like to have one out there.
From Time Magazine Archive
The duns and browns are over the woods, and the leaves come fitfully flickering down.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
In February 2023, DOL dunned the farm $70,049.93 in penalties and back wages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 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
Four of those patients were dunned by collection agencies.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2018
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
She is willing to humiliate herself, as the party requires, by dunning donors while on enforced fund-raising retreats in Vail, but she won’t let anyone buy her.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018
The Irish see little point in dunning Apple for back taxes.
From Economist ● Sep. 8, 2016
Dick Dawdle had land Worth two hundred a year, Yet from debt and from dunning He never was free, His intellect was not Surprisingly clear, But he never felt satisfied How it could be.
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by Cole, E. W. (Edward William)
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