tease
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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
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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
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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
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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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