Words similar to tease

Example sentences for: tease

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Hargarten commented that this area has the potential to cause consternation and divisiveness, so it will require a great deal of textual commentary to tease out the important issues that it addresses.
Too many modern artists have a penchant for leaning over backwards to tease critics, but forget all about I'homme moyen sensuel who, more often than not, likes his pictures in comics.
They let others tease out the implications of their story for them, connecting the dots among Scaife, Starr, and Hale : The billionaire endowed a position for Starr at Pepperdine University (which Starr has subsequently declined) and then bankrolled Hale, Starr's chief witness.
“At the end, if the atlas has a big impact, it will be in providing the precise coordinates for those people to tease apart what specific DNA elements drive expression within regions or structures.”
According to Justice Anthony Kennedy, it's a place where people "practice newly learned vulgarities, erupt with anger, tease and embarrass each other, share offensive notes, flirt, push and shove in the halls, grab and offend."