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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

At the Elko Convention Center, a painted tarp frames the stage: a cloudless blue sky and the dun prow of a mesa jutting skyward.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2019

Dun dun duuuun: The dark side of Silicon Valley philanthropy is finally getting some attention.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2018

Flies, dun or grey, or black, marked like orcs with a red eye-shaped blotch, buzzed and stung; and above the briar-thickets clouds of hungry midges danced and reeled.

From "The Return of the King" 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

Since the Hoover Moratorium ended in 1932, the U. S. State Department has been sending semiannual duns to those governments which have defaulted on debts totaling $11,000,000,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Counting raths, duns, lises, cromlechs, round towers, crumbling castles, and deserted fanes, Ireland may be called a land of ruins beyond any other country in Europe.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.

In February 2023, DOL dunned the farm $70,049.93 in penalties and back wages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2019

Four of those patients were dunned by collection agencies.

From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2018

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

From Washington Post ● Aug. 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

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

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

From Economist ● Sep. 8, 2016

He shuns the innocent questioners who would draw him out, as if they were so many dunning creditors.

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord