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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Kaluuya and Turner-Smith are electric, teasing out the wrinkles and nuances of what could have been stock characters, and Matsoukas’s direction is, by turns, both dirt-on-the-floor realistic and surprisingly lyrical.
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Jason Bailey, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Alcohol The research on alcohol and endometriosis is hazy, mostly because studies assessing usage and symptoms can’t typically tease out whether the booze preceded disease progression or if people dealing with the constant pain of endo are more likely to tap alcohol to cope.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
Reality check: More randomized trials are needed, for instance, to tease out potential harms associated with going on and off the GLP-1s, including whether yo-yoing on weight hurts patients, pointed out C. Michael Gibson, a cardiologist who both prescribes and takes a GLP-1.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
To tease out the impacts of stress on neutral sensory processing, the study authors turned to mice.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
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Jason Bailey, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Alcohol The research on alcohol and endometriosis is hazy, mostly because studies assessing usage and symptoms can’t typically tease out whether the booze preceded disease progression or if people dealing with the constant pain of endo are more likely to tap alcohol to cope.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
Reality check: More randomized trials are needed, for instance, to tease out potential harms associated with going on and off the GLP-1s, including whether yo-yoing on weight hurts patients, pointed out C. Michael Gibson, a cardiologist who both prescribes and takes a GLP-1.
—Tina Reed, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
To tease out the impacts of stress on neutral sensory processing, the study authors turned to mice.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Tease out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tease%20out. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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