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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

Yet as the ancient dogma of tyrants, "The king can do no wrong," does not obtain in this country, we beg leave to call in question the soundness of this doctrine.

From Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

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