tease something out

Examples of teasing

teasing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

By simply accepting the midlevel principles, teasing out their implications, deriving appropriate rules, and applying the rules, one can accomplish the functional end of ethics.
Even the climactic moments of the evening substitute teasing collections of imagery and text for a tidy conclusion and denouement.
The teasing and laughter goes on in front of this child.
Composite scores for the items relating to teasing and bullying at each time point were created, with scores of 0-2.
There is a noticeable difference between simply reconstructing vocabularies and teasing history out of them, however.
Caregivers respond to children's culturally unacceptable questions and requests with silence, essentialized evocations of difference, teasing, and shaming.
By using a combination of techniques from cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and neuroimaging, we have made progress in teasing apart its varied components.
He does this by teasing out the connections between miracles and modal intuitions.
By teasing out the discursive significance of thousands of images, the 'pictures cue the argument rather than the other way around'.
Such teasing episodes are frequent in this friendship group.
Improprieties, like teasing, may create and display intimacy between participants engaging in a common form of moderately risky play.
The former's theoretical position took much posthumous teasing-out by critics to become widely understood.
Specifically, she points to a gendered practice of teasing.
Experimental studies might be more successful in teasing apart frequency and diversity in noun-type co-occurrence.
Teasing out causal relations between highly intercorrelated variables, like phonological awareness, phonological memory, and vocabulary, in correlational studies has proved difficult.
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