challenged
Example Sentences
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Canadian coach Troy Ryan challenged the goal but lost, earning a bench minor for delay of game.
From Los Angeles Times
It was that ruling that FWS successfully challenged in the Supreme Court, with ministers paying the campaign group's legal fees.
From BBC
A Reform spokesman said Taylor "has never been prepared to undertake the role of a councillor to the extent we feel is required" and resigned when challenged.
From BBC
Some writers simply took those expectations for granted; others, such as Mark Twain and Carson McCullers, acknowledged and challenged them.
She discovered the philosopher David Hume, intrigued by his “problem of induction,” which challenged the logic of the idea that something will happen again, like the sun rising, because it did so in the past.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
