Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dunned
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Teams routinely get annoyed with media that spends time on this sort of thing, but there is no better sales tactic than drama.—
Mac Engel
April 16,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
16 Apr. 2026 -
But now Lamar is doing press annoyed with me.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 2026
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Animal rights activists questioned whether the wolf could survive outside the zoo and also worried it might be killed during capture, something that happened to a puma that escaped from the same zoo in 2018.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
17 Apr. 2026
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But, this year, Republicans in Washington have worried that Trump’s nationwide gains with Latinos in 2024 might be reversed, or at least diminished, by his crackdown on immigrants.—
Jesús Rodríguez,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2026
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So what does a $77 rotisserie chicken say about the increasing wealth gap, the disparity between the leisure and working classes, and the overall affordability crisis that certainly irked those who balked at the price?—
Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
14 Apr. 2026
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His comments evidently irked the White House border czar, Tom Homan, who is Catholic.—
Francis X. Rocca,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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Cunk on Earth plays like a Daily Show segment spread out across five hours, in which viewers watch the earnest — and ofttimes exasperated — talking heads field inane questions from Morgan’s uproariously daft Cunk.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Apr. 2026
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No wonder these countries are exasperated.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
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Even minimal exposure to artificial lights irritated his burns, and recovery took months.—
Natalie Krebs,
Outdoor Life,
26 Mar. 2026
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Many people have come out of the woodwork and jumped on the bandwagon, which irritated me.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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From the moment the Dutch colonized the area in the 17th century, disposing of trash has vexed New York City leaders, recognized as heroes when the city somehow gets clean and villainized when the trash piles soar.—
TIM CRAIG THE WASHINGTON POST,
Arkansas Online,
5 Apr. 2026
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Siblings are rich terrain for fiction precisely because they are so vexed—a pressure point where the imperative to create a singular hero meets the desire to imagine new forms of connection.—
Christine Smallwood,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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Other times, the likes of junior safety Kyle Hall has gotten the defense riled up after batting down a ball that was basically in Wagner’s hands.—
Shaun Goodwin,
Idaho Statesman,
9 Apr. 2026
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Activists are riled up over the food delivery robots traversing the city, operated by the delivery companies Coco and Serve Robotics.—
Laura Washington,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Apr. 2026
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Accompanied by her young son Israel, Owens went across the street to Lorincz's residence that evening to retrieve a tablet Israel claimed that Lorincz, who'd repeatedly hassled and called the police on the neighborhood children for years, had stolen from him.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Oct. 2025
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The police hassled him and other migrant workers.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
4 Feb. 2022
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“Dunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dunned. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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