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tease

[teez] / tiz /


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“A tease like that has a little bit more reality to stand on when it’s coming from a company that can send things to the moon and bring them back intact,” Moody said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

And White offered another tease when asked whether he would attend Wednesday's news conference if it does go ahead.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Bond geeks have lots of measures that ought to allow us to tease apart the two stories.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Investors will look to “the dot plot to tease out if this is a hike or a hiking cycle,” said Paul Eitelman, global chief investment strategist at Russell Investments.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

She used to tease him about being prettier than she was.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Russell T Davies teases a new TV project - but says he 'doesn't know if it works'

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Her son, Jack, 34, whom she shares with ex-husband Dennis Quaid, often teases his mom about her home renovation process and has even branded her work “Meg-anized.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

And Alison is the kind of plucky heroine who teases her lover about his research: “Lost treasures, haunted priories, secret maps? I think I saw that movie once.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

The film’s trailer promises more political upheaval, introduces a new villain and teases Paul and Chani’s future child.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2026

"You know, other people have phones too. It's not always yours," her friend teases.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

Seven years on from his last album, Ignorance Is Bliss, and more than two years since it was first teased, the rapper knows how to keep fans waiting.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

This comes nearly three years after deliveries first began and seven years after Tesla teased the stainless-steel truck that some have compared to a “trapezoid on wheels.”

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

He teased that a Dec. 4 Listening Room event in Seattle for India Arie’s “Acoustic Soul” will feature a special guest.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

For years, AI leaders have teased the possibility of curing cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

But still they’d teased Dad, they’d laughed at him.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

However, teasing out cause and effect is difficult.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Temper those outrageous emotions, the ones the algorithms have gotten so good at teasing out of us.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

Over the last few months, SpaceX has been teasing bigger moves in the wireless market.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Mr. Boyagoda is only partially successful at teasing out these themes and connecting the dots of a very complicated plot with a large cast of characters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“Who do you think vouched for you with my father? I told him how Lara and her dumb friends were teasing you.”

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston


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