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

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

So you neither had to put his name on the card nor should you dun him for a contribution of his own, unless he is so moved.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022

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

By last week four nations were quarreling over the spoils, as duns were submitted to the perplexed Rumanians by: > Germany, which claimed title by right of conquest.

From Time Magazine Archive

The trout might appear to be taking bluewing olive duns, but they could actually be eating cripples, emergers, floating nymphs, or something else entirely, like spent trico spinners floating flush with the surface.

From Time Magazine Archive

Abroad, where needy younger sons, When void the parent's treasure-chest, Take refuge from insistent duns, At urgent relatives' request; To live upon their slender wits, Or sums some maiden-aunt remits.

From Verse and Worse by Harry Graham

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

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

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 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

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

Now we have this ceaseless dunning every day: one day it’s the butcher, the next the baker, and the day after the laundress,—and they all want money.

From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse