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But developers won’t know it until state officials dun them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

I laughed at first, as I slowly made my way toward the board, but no matter how hard I tried to ignore it, that “dun, dun, dun, dun” kept getting louder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 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

The entire formation—a kind of immense mound—was white, from the dun desert floor to the blue of the sky.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

For months Turkey has been living hand-to-mouth, paying such urgent bills as last June's oil-company duns out of current earnings.

From Time Magazine Archive

When black and red foals turn to grey, or duns become bays, they are probably imitating their tarpan ancestors.

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 Graham, Harry

In some cases, the hospitals referred the individuals to bill collectors who dunned them for the payments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018

Mr. Pearce also ruled that employees who had resigned their union membership after their labor contract expired could be dunned for back dues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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

She is willing to humiliate herself, as the party requires, by dunning donors while on enforced fund-raising retreats in Vail, but she won’t let anyone buy her.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018

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

From Economist ● Sep. 8, 2016

"To avoid the rascally impertinence of dunning," answered the witness.

From The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. by Various