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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

I saw it a week before I started typing this and already don’t remember who dun exactly what.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2020

Dun dun duuuun: The dark side of Silicon Valley philanthropy is finally getting some attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2018

An old white man in a gray coat trotted by on a dun horse.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Bill Collector In St. Louis, Federal agents got after one Irving R. Gaertner, professional bill collector who, besides sending scurrilous duns through the mails, shamed debtors by parking his car before their homes.

From Time Magazine Archive

He lived in an atmosphere of duns, but such a thorough master was he of the subject that it was the tradesmen who eventually were “done” by him.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville

Companies could be sued by investors or dunned by the SEC if their disclosures were deemed inadequate or misleading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Debtors dunned by creditors face similarly dire consequences.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2021

Voice-over narration is a tricky stylistic choice; it gets dunned for being a “tell not show” form of storytelling, and doesn’t often work.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2020

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

The dunning letters “irresponsibly and unnecessarily caused homeowners to expend time and money” trying to prove they are New York residents and “lacked any real guidance as to the proof required,” he added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

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

In February 2016, Wickizer received a letter from the state of Virginia saying that the medical center would be dunning money from any tax refund she might get.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2017

I wish to be where I can never get a bill, or a dunning letter, or hear the postman’s knock.”

From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr