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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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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

No man can call in question, that England has derived her greatest forces from her commerce with America.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various

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