tease out

verb

tr, adverb to extract (information) with difficulty

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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]

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There were tens of thousands of listening sessions across the globe, meant to tease out the issues that Catholics most cared about.

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We’re left to tease out their differences.

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“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.”

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"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.

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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.

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