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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

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

It’s Grace Smeath, charmless and righteous, in shapeless, ageless clothing, dun in color; she is ringless and without ornament.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

"You must never let down!" he duns a student.

From Time Magazine Archive

A self-styled inventor, he arranges elaborate booby-traps for duns; she collects cats.

From Time Magazine Archive

He took no heed of the warning, though the duns were beginning to gather about him.

From Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons

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

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

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

From Economist ● Sep. 8, 2016

To tell me that Ruby and Golden were dunning you out of your life, when you never owed them a stiver!

From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Richard Marsh