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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

The episode ends with intrigue on Beverly’s ship when Riker and Picard meet — dun, dun, dun — her son.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023

Jumper was a dun mule with a narrow black stripe running along his backbone between his mane and tail.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In that happy place there were no duns, no tailors' bills, no trouble, no debts, no getting up early cold mornings, no tight boots, no bad cigars: nothing but love, luxury, and Calanthe Maria.

From Doesticks, What He Says by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander

Countries that ban imports made with forced labor but fail to effectively enforce their prohibitions are dunned 10%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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 continued his dunning correspondence with the greatest energy, alternately cajoling, proposing, complaining, begging to be sent on some important enterprise.

From Paul Jones by Hapgood, Hutchins