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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

Three days till the ropes that bound him revolted The heavens were green and the grass was dun!

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 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

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

He never duns me for my rent, he lent me money at the time of the child's baptism, and he shows me more kindness than anyone else does.'

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various

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

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

Some of the entries seemed trivial, or obscure, or both, but taken together, they suggested a state government with an unseemly habit of dunning its citizens.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2014

B. There is a metal still heavier, which they have the power of creating—gold—to pay a dunning tailor's bill.

From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat