tease
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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