- present participle of tease.
teasing
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For the last several days, the company has been teasing a “Cybercab launch event” in its hometown of Austin, Texas.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
Now he is teasing what he calls a final attacking "bomba", with moves for two forwards expected, including one for Manchester City's Savinho.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
At some point, I complained to my mom about the teasing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
I thought about Mae, casually tossing off French curse words, and about the other girls teasing Mae for being Luc’s favorite.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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But her teasings – like her reminders of Jennifer Lawrence’s struggles with the forces of gravity — were generally light and pleasantly show-bizzy.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2014
Dr. Aicadre accepts his invalidism with bitter fatalism; the only things that are insupportable are the teasings of Madame Teterger's idiot son, who hates him. and the starvation rations given to his pet dog Bobbee.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Even in their mutual teasings the deep, brotherly affection was unwavering.
From The Reclaimers by Margaret Hill McCarter
You play no jokes upon any one, you annoy no one with your teasings and nonsense, one hardly ever hears a word of fun from you.
From Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes by E. Werner
But when school life began and they became exposed to the twits and teasings of their playmates there developed a shy timidity and reserve when in the presence of others.
From A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes by Sanford Bell