How to Use tease out in a Sentence

tease out

verb
  • The two met over a long lunch as del Toro teased out details.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Rather, younger artists tease out threads and elaborate on them.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022
  • In a new study, scientists tried to tease out why this might be the case.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • If a splash of coconut water teases out the fruit, add it.
    — Gina Pace, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Longer-term studies are needed to tease out the full effects.
    — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 29 July 2024
  • And even for browsers, the best of these correspondences help tease out themes.
    — Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Solar Orbiter may be able to tease out some of these answers.
    — Denise Chow, NBC news, 11 June 2025
  • The science team is working on teasing out the rock’s origin.
    — Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • One source told the outlet that royal aids were working around the clock to tease out the details.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 7 May 2023
  • How have researchers teased out numbers for who is and isn’t committing crime?
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Winners and losers The list of winners and losers is long and, in some cases, hard to tease out.
    — Eddie Pells, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2025
  • No doubt the thorny topic of regulation will be teased out further there.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
  • There’s a lot of information that needs to be teased out over several episodes.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 12 June 2023
  • At least those other moments were teased out for weeks and had full reporting cycles around them.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Instead, gently tease out roots if they’re tangled but keep that familiar soil around them.
    — Michelle Mastro, The Spruce, 12 Mar. 2026
  • In the study, the scientists used other methods to try and tease out the real story.
    — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Taylor said a longer study might be needed to tease out more subtle effects of probiotics on mood.
    — Simon Spichak, Health, 16 May 2025
  • Now, trying to tease out what really moved voters in an election year is often fraught.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • The insights from early polls tease out the major issues voters are thinking about that could shape the race.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
  • Warrant and Dreyer hope to tease out more answers in follow-up studies.
    — Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 18 June 2025
  • More intriguing are threads begging to be teased out about death, rebirth, and artifice.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 June 2025
  • To tease out the impacts of stress on neutral sensory processing, the study authors turned to mice.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Candidates need to focus on housing Whether housing can drive voters to the polls is hard to tease out.
    — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2024
  • Murphy usually teases out those reveals on his social media, so stay tuned for that.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
  • In that mighty visage, Stephens and Hernandez tease out a theme of grand scope and urgency.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Exactly what Farrah needs from them is teased out until the climactic stretch.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Tiang’s play often teases out the issues of identity latent in such moments.
    — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Also, Earth in the moon’s sky is far brighter than the moon is from Earth, which can make city lights more difficult to tease out.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024
  • In another study, Hill tried teased out this curious form of self-sabotage.
    — Thomas Curran, Time, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Looking back at 12 months of news teases out patterns and themes that may not have been obvious in the moment.
    — Cindi Andrews, IndyStar, 28 Dec. 2025

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