as in harassment
the act of making unwelcome intrusions upon another
stop that teasing before you make the baby cry
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as in joking
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as in taunting
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as in kidding
to make fun of in a good-natured way
likes to tease her twin brother about his seemingly endless string of girlfriends
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as in mocking
to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults
grew up being teased because his parents were hog farmers
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Recent Examples of teasing
Zak Doffman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
The cast of Abbott has been teasing this epic crossover for months now.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
Gaga announced Harlequin only a few days before its release, but the Grammy and Oscar winner had been teasing that something was on the way for some time.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
All this music Offset has been teasing could be for the follow-up to his 2023 LP Set It Off.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2024
After Perez began teasing the track in earnest on her TikTok in the spring, users quickly latched onto the hook, clamoring to hear a full version.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2024
Bravo is teasing the new season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with a new promo.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
In 2019, Amazon jumped in, teasing its Echo Frames—camera-less smart glasses with Alexa built in—which went on sale to the public the following year.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
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If that’s not disappointing enough, Google is also now teasing that Android 16 will start doing the developer rounds much earlier than usual, which will raise the question as to how Samsung can catch up, given its Android 15 is behind.
—Zak Doffman, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
The cast of Abbott has been teasing this epic crossover for months now.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
Gaga announced Harlequin only a few days before its release, but the Grammy and Oscar winner had been teasing that something was on the way for some time.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
All this music Offset has been teasing could be for the follow-up to his 2023 LP Set It Off.
—Angel Diaz, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2024
After Perez began teasing the track in earnest on her TikTok in the spring, users quickly latched onto the hook, clamoring to hear a full version.
—Stephen Daw, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2024
Bravo is teasing the new season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with a new promo.
—Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2024
In 2019, Amazon jumped in, teasing its Echo Frames—camera-less smart glasses with Alexa built in—which went on sale to the public the following year.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teasing
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The caption read in joking reference to the upcoming spooky holiday.Escher Walcott, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
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Of course, Lowe was only joking.David Chiu, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
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South Park also piled on by mocking her in a recent episode.James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2024
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Nasrallah posed as a kind of Che Guevara of the Arab world—mocking his enemies, living mostly underground.Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024
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Leaf worked with Stefanie Lambert, a Detroit lawyer who was part of the Trump team led by Sidney Powell, a conspiracy theory-espousing attorney who filed several frivolous lawsuits alleging widespread voter fraud and rigged machines that flipped votes from Trump to Biden.Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024
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In contrast, some pieces were more frivolous and had a dream-like quality, such as the whimsical faux feather trims seen on several jackets.Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
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Since effective job search is built around a series of steps and processes, a more inspiring task list would vary from day to day while covering the essentials: Contacting specific people, attending networking sessions, conducting outreach for a determined number of jobs, etc.Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 2 Nov. 2024
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The interview concluded on an inspiring note, envisioning a bright future not only for Angham but also for emerging artists who may find her label Sowt Masr a springboard to new horizons in the music industry.Omar Baqbouq, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
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To name just one example: After an opening act filled with lurid cartel violence, Emilia Pérez gives us a comic number about gender-reassignment surgery.Nate Jones, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
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Is that going to be a straight adaptation or a comic version?Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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Though there are many examples that are less amusing.Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
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Hausman notes that the algorithm does not work perfectly, and like modern chatbots, the robots sometimes fail in surprising and amusing ways.Will Knight, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
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This simultaneously funny and profound musical spins around a teenage girl (the lovable Carolee Carmello) suffering from a rare genetic disease that makes her age five times faster than normal.Karen D'Souza, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
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The jokes just aren’t funny enough — though there is one killer line about Shehzada, which was one of Aaryan’s major flops — and the scares aren’t terrifying enough.Anupama Chopra, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
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While our understanding of the brain has (thankfully) developed greatly from the days of removing cerebral tissue to see what would happen, a precise understanding of where our memories reside—and how our brain recalls past experience—remains elusive.Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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These complex responses engage a constellation of cerebral circuits that link brain and body.R Douglas Fields, WIRED, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Teasing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teasing. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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