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

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

From Science Daily

To tease out the underlying trend, the Fed has focused on core services prices excluding housing.

From The Wall Street Journal

"We did this to try to start to tease out whether the changes they saw were to do with the biological process of pregnancy or more the process of becoming a mum," Carmona says.

From BBC

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

From BBC

“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