tease out

British  

verb

1. (tr, adverb) to extract (information) with difficulty

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tease out Idioms  

1. Lure out, obtain or extract with effort, as in We had a hard time teasing the wedding date out of him. This term alludes to the literal sense of tease, “untangle or release something with a pointed tool.” [Mid-1900s]

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Example Sentences

“The methods of working with that data to really tease out the important information have come a very, very long way,” Krippner said.

From Literature

Many scenes go by with little or no meaningful dialogue, so the audience must tease out the implications, but many others are built around voiceover narration of the kind that enables some of Terrence Malick’s films to reach unplumbed depths.

From The Wall Street Journal

Many advanced economies are so thoroughly distorted by the land-finance nexus that it can be hard to even tease out the consequences.

From Slate

While there is evidence that AI is cutting into demand for certain jobs, such as software development, the degree to which it is more broadly automating away jobs is difficult to tease out, points out Kolko.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We saw molecules at the location of the planet, and so we knew that there was stuff in there worth digging for and spending a year trying to tease out of the data. It really took a lot of perseverance," said Grant.

From Science Daily