to call into question
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4.5
- phrasal verb
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poner en duda
- The findings of the report call into question the effectiveness of the current policies.
- call into question assumptions
- call into question the legitimacy
- call into question claims
All these things call into question his manhood.
- All these things call into question his manhood.
- But I will tell you, Tesla's demand is being called into question right now.
- So let me show you a simple study that calls that into question.
- It will maybe call into question who do we trust with news?
- This show calls that into question, right?
- Now Hegel is going to call some of this into question, not the the whole thing, but part of it here.
- But what calls the mistakes into question?
- We cannot go through an election where Russian meddling actually calls into question the results of the vote tallies.
- He says they're inferior in so much as their motive is not a sense of shame, sense of self worth and not wanting that to be called into question, but fear.
- There's just no excuse for it because the public is always going to call the election into question.
- So this rote memorization kind of default methodology of teaching needs to be called into question.
- But he also wants to call into question the referential, the referential accuracy of Wilson's perception of Brown.
- Instead it calls into question the motivations of the corporation and does in fact make it look to be bottom line centric.
- You can call it into question and can't undermine those accusations.
- It was like AI was seeing behind the veil of the realities and it, it really called into question my own issues.
Examples
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Nevertheless, the superior economic performance of the progressive state calls that conclusion into question.
Academic text (2017) -
I have served you well in the past, but my judgment has been called into question.
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If climate change is real, that calls into question their philosophy.
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We had already called into question the very definition of what is work and who is a worker.
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Your military judgement will be called into question.
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As discussed below, this calls into question clients' stated reasons for bringing moral support.
Academic text (2012) -
Most other authors also believe this estimate, but a few do call it into question.
Academic text (2008) -
The present findings call into question this line of reasoning by students.
Academic text (2008) -
Therefore, motivation of the prosecution has to be called into question.
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And when religion does that, it very interestingly calls into question the fundamental aspects of our world.
Synonyms
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3.5
To express doubt about whether something is true
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4.3
To officially say that a decision, person, or evidence is not acceptable
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3.5
To argue about something or question if it is true
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8.1
To say that someone's words are not honest or true
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3.7
To ask a person a question to show doubt or get information
To question whether something is true or right
To look at an idea or belief carefully by asking hard questions
Antonyms
How Doubtful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to express doubt about' is directly derivable from combining 'call' (to make or declare) with 'into question' (into a state of doubt), so learners who know the constituent words can infer 'make something doubtful' or 'raise doubts about it'. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'poner en duda', French 'mettre en doute') and follows an intuitive 'make X into doubt' logic accessible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Call into question comes from the image of someone who calls a thing forward to be asked a question, like bringing a witness into court so people can ask about the truth. So to call something into question means 'to express doubt' about it.