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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

Again, Wray’s explanatory discretion is an advantage, letting him bypass the hysteria of inquiry, the dunning “Why?” that tends to dominate in cases of Western converts to Islam.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

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