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We still try to address problems like poverty and Islamic extremism by trying to tease out individual causes.

And when he saw them, that naughty Little Jack Rollaround began to tease. 'Out of the way, there!

Tang-Peronard says that it is impossible, now, to tease out how much of obesity is caused by chemicals, and how much by energy balance.

The Oxford English Corpus would have let me look at numerous contexts of the word to tease out whether this was the case.

It is not surprising that it has taken researchers so long to tease out the link between alcohol exposure and birth defects.

An alternative approach is to try to tease out the statistical impact of changes in government spending or tax cuts on GDP.

If a boy likes you, he will try to tease out of you laugh, happy to let you . . .

By training a spectrograph on this light, scientists can tease out the composition of the planet's atmosphere.

This unique thing will then enable you to tease out further demographic details from the website's visitors.

He tried to tease out some secrets from the child.

To tease out the relationships between sleep, starvation and survival, the researchers deprived fruit flies of both food and sleep.

'We know humans have such benefits but it took meticulous long-term research on baboon society to tease out the specific mechanisms.

Then it applies some artificial-intelligence algorithms to tease out connections between the players.

The researchers say follow-up studies are needed to tease out the relationship between television and happiness.

As they work to tease out clues from suspects, they ask their questions with the cunning of poker players.

To tease out the effects of genes and environment, the researchers turned to the time-tested model of twins.

For one, the new proteins give researchers the power to tease out how specific brain circuits underlie behaviour, Boyden says.

Magnets pull out steel and iron, blowers tease out bags and paper, while shakers and centrifuges help separate other materials.

The researchers conducted three experiments to tease out the empathy gap between rich and poor.

This is why we launched, in April, our World's Best Places To Live initiative, designed to tease out insider tips for would-be expats.

If you in front of the others to confidently and clinking happily eat excrement, perhaps can take someone's saliva all tease out.

T4 has been an important model system to tease out the details of basic mechanisms by which viruses assemble into infectious particles.

One can also use these index numbers in data analysis, using each country as a data point, to tease out correlations and even causalities.

Mom asked me to tease out the dog's tangled hair after it came back.

CT scans are used on birds to tease out the hidden physics of flying.

Indeed, efforts to tease out the source of arteriole malfunction led us to our unexpected discovery six years ago.

It took us a long time to tease out the important facts from a dry mass of details.

And because it's difficult to tease out social factors in human studies, animal work has an important role.

And, instead of dealing just with information, we can tease out knowledge.