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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

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 document says the whistleblower spoke with “more than a half dozen U.S. officials” about the incident and that there were “approximately a dozen” U.S. officials on the call in question.

From Slate

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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