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call in question

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  1. Also, call into question. Dispute, challenge; also, cast doubt on. For example, How can you call her honesty into question? This usage was first recorded in John Lyly's Euphues (1579): “That ... I should call in question the demeanour of all.”

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Poloncarz, the county executive, told reporters in May that Erie County emergency services found the call in question after combing through the 911 calls associated with the mass shooting.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2022

An official said that wasn’t the call in question.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2021

The call in question that he made yesterday -- or day before yesterday now -- were to four family members, the four fallen.

From Time • Oct. 19, 2017

The specific call in question was a long, deep rumble known as the contact rumble.

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2010

The altruistic sentiments develop, and altruistic action becomes habitual, "until at length these altruistic sentiments begin to call in question the authority of those ego-altruistic sentiments which once ruled unchallenged."

From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.

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