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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Studying Jupiter and its moons will not only provide new insights about the formation of gas giants and planetary systems at large but also help to tease out signs of life and habitability beneath the icy shells of the enormous moons.
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Brandon Specktor, Space.com, 2 Aug. 2025
Bans and fee specifics vary widely between places, shoreline clean-ups aren’t uniformly done, and there’s often a lot of inherent uncertainty with the available data that makes teasing out patterns difficult.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 19 June 2025
Winners and losers The list of winners and losers is long and, in some cases, hard to tease out.
—Eddie Pells, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2025
Then, Taylor and co presented baby chickens with different versions of hypothetical wasp mimics, to tease out which traits were the most important for keeping predators at bay.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 2 July 2025
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Brandon Specktor, Space.com, 2 Aug. 2025
Bans and fee specifics vary widely between places, shoreline clean-ups aren’t uniformly done, and there’s often a lot of inherent uncertainty with the available data that makes teasing out patterns difficult.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 19 June 2025
Winners and losers The list of winners and losers is long and, in some cases, hard to tease out.
—Eddie Pells, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2025
Then, Taylor and co presented baby chickens with different versions of hypothetical wasp mimics, to tease out which traits were the most important for keeping predators at bay.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 2 July 2025
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“Tease out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tease%20out. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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