teases out
Coaxes into view
To tease out is to extract something gradually and carefully, especially information or meaning that isn't immediately obvious: She teased out the implications of the new policy.
The phrase comes from the literal sense of gently separating tangled fibers or strands.
You tease out details from a reluctant witness, tease out patterns from messy data, or tease out the logic behind someone's argument.
- discoversFinds something previously unknown
- gets to the bottom ofFinds the root cause
- deducesReaches by reasoning
- untanglesSeparates what's knotted
- disentanglesFrees from complication
pulls apart · clarifies · understands · works through · separates · explains · dissects · picks apart · extracts · infers · loosens · identifies · combs · winnows · isolates · analyzes · unravels · explores
teases outforces out
Compels departure
demands · coerces · wrests · strong-arms · drags out
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