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cast doubt on
Idioms and Phrases
Cause something or someone to be questioned. For example, The prosecutor cast doubt on the wife's alibi . This idiom uses cast in the sense of “throw,†a usage dating from the early 1200s.Example Sentences
In a report, the Public Accounts Committee, which scrutinises the use of taxpayers' money, cast doubt on whether the government would hit its own target of resolving the building safety crisis by 2029.
Mr Underhill's death in 1964 was ruled a suicide, but the magazine cast doubt on that as well.
Ramsey, it shows, claimed he'd bought the picture from a market in Hemel Hempstead, and he also attempted to cast doubt on the authenticity of the picture.
President Trump has already cast doubt on Nato membership, but Putin has repeatedly dismissed the idea of Ukraine as a state at all.
Atletico coach Simeone cast doubt on the decision, but hoped the officials had made the right call.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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