teasing
Example Sentences
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Though this material provides context, the book’s habit of teasing the titular riot several times and then jumping to another topic gets a bit exasperating.
The company has made a series of missteps with AI, teasing features before they were ready for primetime and rolling out new functions more slowly than peers.
From MarketWatch
None of this is obvious in the first two episodes of the show’s six-part season, which is light on establishing dialogue, the standard means of teasing out character interiority.
From Salon
Now, if only Jay could mount the flat-screen television on the wall, Al says, teasing his son.
From Los Angeles Times
Thought and feeling bubble up beneath visible restraint—she’ll let a nervous glance scamper this way or that, or wear a smile that’s still crimped at the edges amid the teasing interplay of her peers.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
