Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for call in question. Search instead for academic+question.
Synonyms

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.”


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

At Katrine's airs of dignity she scoffed openly, and she would call in question Gwethyn's really quite harmless little exaggerations with ruthless punctiliousness.

From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela