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tease out
verb
- tr, adverb to extract (information) with difficulty
Idioms and Phrases
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]Example Sentences
“That’s what baseball’s all about. These long periods of nothing happening and then bursts of action. I wanted to tease out those passages of nothingness and show that there’s actually a lot happening.”
"It is hard to tease out the precise reason for this, but our sense is that this has more to do with selective engagement," Milan Vaishnav, co-author of the study, said.
There’s enough there for any decent horror filmmaker to tease out, especially a director with the eye for detail and mood that gave “Longlegs” its aura of hidden abnormality and a timeless evil lying in wait.
Miller said he plans to use the data to try and tease out what is behind these brain differences and whether they are due to genetics or potential environmental risk factors.
Although many websites say ice cream contains more fat than gelato, this is a tricky one to tease out.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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