tease
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With that, “Chronovisor” and its obsessed protagonist enter a trancelike, analog-heavy state in which obscure texts in myriad languages tease a concealed parascientific history of potentially great importance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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
“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
Analysts use statistical techniques like linear regression to help tease this out.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Or Uhmma tease Apa and then lightly kiss him on the cheek to make sure he knows she was only kidding?
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
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She teases much of her advice on TikTok, but most of it comes with a cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 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
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
The short clip also teases a reunion between Buzz and Woody, following the latter's decision to leave the gang to help abandoned toys in the previous film, 2019's Toy Story 4.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
“Candie, these are the people living with me who eat me out of house and home every day,” Dad teases.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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As is to be expected from the Silent Hill games, the real reasons why you're there and what's going on are teased as you progress through the story in a typically vague fashion.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
The former first son launched his namesake memecoin on Wednesday, less than two days after the project was teased in an exclusive story published by the Wall Street Journal.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
The White House released several games Thursday, with a placeholder that teased another one "coming soon."
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
HBO teased Harington’s casting on Instagram, revealing he will play Professor Gilderoy Lockhart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
So was Hunter Schultz, who’d teased Max last year until Max told the assistant principal.
From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee
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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
It's not hard to imagine him going toe-to-toe with battled-hardened lower-league centre forwards - despite teasing from the school reception staff.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
He recounted British soldiers teasing a small boy even as they took care of him.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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