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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As a result, Benét and his team got to work with the Duets EP, teasing out the concept of having an all-women-features project, with their eyes set on an album that would extend the idea to even more songs.
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Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
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Eagle-eyed fans were quick to tease out a more sordid history of the track.
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Brandt, founding director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education in Minnesota, is a tenacious researcher, digging here and there to tease out more information about Fifield’s life than those three sentences offered.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
More intriguing are threads begging to be teased out about death, rebirth, and artifice.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 June 2025
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Meagan Jordan, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025
Jamie Foxx cries in BET Awards speech about health, credits daughters with recovery
Eagle-eyed fans were quick to tease out a more sordid history of the track.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 11 June 2025
Brandt, founding director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education in Minnesota, is a tenacious researcher, digging here and there to tease out more information about Fifield’s life than those three sentences offered.
—Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 10 June 2025
More intriguing are threads begging to be teased out about death, rebirth, and artifice.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 June 2025
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“Tease out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tease%20out. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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