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tease

[teez] / tiz /


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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

“It’s a real challenge to try and tease out one thing out of the array of factors that undermine women’s health in these states,” said Eugene Declercq, a public health researcher at Boston University.

From Salon Sep. 13, 2026

The Turkish side took to their social media on Tuesday night to tease the arrival of Salah with the Pyramids being shown on a video next to Papara Park.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Energetic and playful, Shimizu likes to tease Morishita about her height.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

We couldn’t tease her the way we teased Togbe about Auntie Kafui, but I sometimes wondered if he had a bit of a thing for her.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

The Independent teases its new documentary on "kito" attacks in Nigeria on its front page, titled "Hunted".

From BBC Jun. 24, 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

“I thought it might be nice to play with the format a little bit, and that just gives the episode some energy,” teases Binder.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 24, 2026

“The Spice Girls are getting back together?” he teases.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

The comments from Newsom seemingly stunned Tapper in the two-minute clip, which teased a longer interview that is expected to air Tuesday morning.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

He also teased tariff and ‘DOGE’ dividends last year that never came.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

Zuckerberg recently teased the idea of launching a cloud computing business to directly monetize its investments in data-center infrastructure.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

"Stop looking at your phone screen. Just look at me," BTS member Jungkook teased the audience at one concert.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Petey Thunkle wanted only normal smarts, because then maybe he’d get only normal teased.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

The company impressed Wall Street several weeks ago by teasing an improved profitability trajectory.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 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

They have hit the ground running, with Kylian Mbappe in impeccable form and Michael Olise at his teasing best.

From BBC Jun. 28, 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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