tease
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After a roughly 15-minute drive through mild traffic, we made it to the venue just in time to see Epps tease a few audience members during his opening comedy segment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Energetic and playful, Shimizu likes to tease Morishita about her height.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
The new album appears designed to tease, coax and overwhelm the listener.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Both sides' refusal to apply pressure when the opposition attempted to tease them out is best illustrated by a statistic that looks to quantify how intensely a team presses.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
“And Ouranos kicked you in the face as he struggled. How we used to tease you about that!”
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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
The only clear morals of “Transcription” have to do with its insistence on mystery, and on art that teases the mind and refreshes the senses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Without sharing any details, Parker teases the situation will be addressed again next season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026
I don’t even own a swimsuit, something Violet teases me about relentlessly.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
Jeff Kent sported a mustache throughout his career even though some folks teased him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The congresswoman teased O’Handley, the person said, for not placing a bigger wager.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
“I was like, ‘Oh, Lauren, you meant to look for this light blue Cinderella ball gown,’” she teased her sibling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
This week, Carlson teased an interview with podcasters Joel Webbon and J.D.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Redemption grinned as he teased his parent, and Whis grabbed him in a gentle headlock before letting him go.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
The company impressed Wall Street several weeks ago by teasing an improved profitability trajectory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Spidey Tracker info from the “Brand New Day” post-credits scene could be teasing that’s where Spider-Man will eventually land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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
Jamuna Paar - literally "across the Yamuna" - is shorthand for the city's eastern neighbourhoods and the subject of endless teasing over their neglected civic infrastructure.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He smiled to show he was teasing, but I didn’t trust him.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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