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dune

[doon, dyoon] / dun, dyun /


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Emojis, Disney characters, cigarettes and more pile up in humorous scenes that include a saber-toothed tiger driving a dune buggy and a pair of corvids fighting over a worm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

At Monte Clérigo, researchers identified 5 trackways and 26 individual footprints created by adults and by children slightly over a year old on the slope of what was once a coastal dune.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025

The shifting sand dune system along that stretch of coast north of Aberdeen was regarded as one of the finest examples of its kind in the UK.

From BBC • Jul. 11, 2025

You could not tell what was a sand dune and what was a snow mound.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

He hesitated and then added, “which is what you are,” and there was silence on his dune.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles




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