Example sentences for: dunning

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

  • 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 are careful to point out that in certain circumstances, it's impossible for all but the clinically deluded to ignore evidence about one's relative competence: "We doubt whether many of our readers would dare take on Michael Jordan in a game of one-on-one, challenge Eric Clapton with a session of dueling guitars, or enter into a friendly wager on the golf course with Tiger Woods."

  • Donors are balking at perpetual political dunning.

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

  • In between elections, she converts the campaign into a nonprofit so she can keep dunning the same list of donors.


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