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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The success of Citadel, which manages $68 billion in its hedge fund and has a huge securities-trading operation, has always been hard to pin on any one thing, as The New Yorker’s Gary Sernovitz teases out in a profile out this week that observed how Griffin fits none of Wall Street’s archetypes.
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 16 June 2026
Contemporary art historians are trained to tease out the political messaging of artworks, but Church is elusive here as well.
—Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
Most of the Chatterley mentions and appropriations are pretty straightforward, but Cuthbertson teases out a few lines of influence of a more speculative turn.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
The research from University College Cork is notable for looking at these complexities in detail, trying to tease out some of the underlying mechanisms.
—Paul Hsieh, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
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Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 16 June 2026
Contemporary art historians are trained to tease out the political messaging of artworks, but Church is elusive here as well.
—Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
Most of the Chatterley mentions and appropriations are pretty straightforward, but Cuthbertson teases out a few lines of influence of a more speculative turn.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
The research from University College Cork is notable for looking at these complexities in detail, trying to tease out some of the underlying mechanisms.
—Paul Hsieh, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
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“Tease out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tease%20out. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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