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calling into question

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Noun1.calling into question - a challenge to defend what someone has said
demand for explanation
challenge - a call to engage in a contest or fight


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Revitalized "downtowns" are springing up everywhere, quite naturally -- calling into question city and county leaders' urgent desire to create a spectacular downtown Los Angeles by way of the Grand Avenue project.
THINKING BEYOND DOWNTOWN THE GRAND-EST OF MANY? by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In addition, rather than simply calling into question the usefulness of the so-called Protestant work ethic, McCarraher chose to demonize Calvinism generally, referring to it as "toxic residue," "tyrannical," and "heresy.
Lack of charity by Katsanis, Bobbi Dykema / Commonweal
Some aquatic bacteria that orient themselves using Earth's magnetic field swim in the opposite direction from what researchers typically expect, calling into question a longstanding theory of what this navigational behavior accomplishes.
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