tease out
verb
teased out; teasing out; teases out
1
: to obtain by or as if by disentangling or freeing with a pointed instrument
2
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But teasing out just how much of an impact climate change has had on production and consumer prices remains largely unchartered by scientists and economists.
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Ayurella Horn-Muller, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2025
Suddenly out of their element in a wide-open wilderness that is never specified — even to the protagonists — the film teases out the same feelings with which our characters grapple.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2025
The challenge in adapting scammer stories is to tease out of the villain’s (or antihero’s) tantalizing lies a metanarrative compelling enough to justify the retelling.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is encouraging his Democratic colleagues to grill Trump’s Cabinet picks and tease out some of the president-elect’s reasons for selecting them.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
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Ayurella Horn-Muller, WIRED, 22 Feb. 2025
Suddenly out of their element in a wide-open wilderness that is never specified — even to the protagonists — the film teases out the same feelings with which our characters grapple.
—John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2025
The challenge in adapting scammer stories is to tease out of the villain’s (or antihero’s) tantalizing lies a metanarrative compelling enough to justify the retelling.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is encouraging his Democratic colleagues to grill Trump’s Cabinet picks and tease out some of the president-elect’s reasons for selecting them.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Jan. 2025
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“Tease out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tease%20out. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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