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call in question

Idioms  

  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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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 search turned up Kislyak’s communications, which the FBI routinely monitors, and the phone call in question with Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general with years of intelligence experience.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2017

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

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2010

Contest, kon-test′, v.t. to call in question or make the subject of dispute: to strive for.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

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