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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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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

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

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