call into doubt
idiom
US
: to make people doubt (something)
His report calls into doubt the earlier reports we had.
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Holocaust denial includes claims that the genocide never took place, or that call into doubt the means or intentionality of the genocide.
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Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
Officials felt too intimidated to point out mistakes, the analysts said, or to call into doubt his claims that the pandemic was over.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2021
Third, the loss of Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption would call into doubt the ability of Major League Baseball teams to collective individual team’s statistical data for purposes of centralized selling or licensing data to gambling enterprises.
—Marc Edelman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
In his book, Gregg cites experts who call into doubt the value of the mirror-self-recognition test, an exercise thought to indicate some degree of self-consciousness.
—Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2013
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Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 13 July 2022
Officials felt too intimidated to point out mistakes, the analysts said, or to call into doubt his claims that the pandemic was over.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2021
Third, the loss of Major League Baseball’s antitrust exemption would call into doubt the ability of Major League Baseball teams to collective individual team’s statistical data for purposes of centralized selling or licensing data to gambling enterprises.
—Marc Edelman, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
In his book, Gregg cites experts who call into doubt the value of the mirror-self-recognition test, an exercise thought to indicate some degree of self-consciousness.
—Erik Vance, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2013
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