Example sentences for: dunning

How can you use “dunning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Donors are balking at perpetual political dunning.

  • To test the principle of which the endearingly clueless Wheeler's story is an extreme example, the study's authors, Justin Kruger and David Dunning of Cornell, took a bunch of Cornell students and had them perform four tasks and then estimate how well they'd done at each.

  • As the Democratic Party claims to speak for the little guy while dunning Fortune 500 companies, so the Braves hold themselves out as a modest, small-market underdog.

  • Kruger and Dunning's finding also calls to mind the quotation from Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death that serves as the epigraph to Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer : "[T]he specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."

  • Kruger and Dunning compare people's inability to recognize their incompetence to a neurological disability called anosognosia.


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