tease out

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tease out

verb teases out · teasing out · teased out

To unravel; (figuratively, by extension) to determine; solve. 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/ The researchers are teasing out fine details of the yaki’s private life.
Similar: disentangle, puzzle out, work out, feeze, tease out, unravel, unsnarl, untangle, absolve, decipher, get to the bottom of, iron out
To separate as if by unraveling.
To work out, procure, or extract, usually by processes involving subterfuge, diligence, manipulation, or coaxing. Well, early in the days of vitamin and mineral discovery, chickens were the research models for studies that eventually teased out information that we take for granted today.

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@misc{tease_out_2026,
  title = {tease out},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tease%20out},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}