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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tease out

Investors will look to “the dot plot to tease out if this is a hike or a hiking cycle,” said Paul Eitelman, global chief investment strategist at Russell Investments.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

You need someone who can tease out those patterns and make decisions across different sets of controls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

"These simulations allow us to tease out small effects to determine what actually happens, helping us to understand our observations."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 24, 2026

"That's really where we can tease out whether it's AI-generated or it's real."

From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2026

I beat some dust off the comb and began to tease out the yellow mass of knots her hair had turned into.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver