- present participle of tease.
teasing
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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 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
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
Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, attending the summit as a guest, could not resist teasing Macron, an avowed fan of PSG's bitter southern rivals Olympique de Marseille.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
She already knew about the other kids teasing me.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
But her teasings – like her reminders of Jennifer Lawrence’s struggles with the forces of gravity — were generally light and pleasantly show-bizzy.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2014
Dr. Aicadre accepts his invalidism with bitter fatalism; the only things that are insupportable are the teasings of Madame Teterger's idiot son, who hates him. and the starvation rations given to his pet dog Bobbee.
From Time Magazine Archive
I tormented the family by persistent teasings to go somewhere, or to do something.
From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee
But when school life began and they became exposed to the twits and teasings of their playmates there developed a shy timidity and reserve when in the presence of others.
From A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes by Sanford Bell
Miss Clark, her form mistress, was apt to wax eloquent over her mistakes, but she took the teacher's sarcasms with the same stolidity as the girls' teasings.
From A Patriotic Schoolgirl by Balliol Salmon
