Wiktionary
tease out
vb. 1 To unravel. 2 To separate as if by unraveling.
Usage examples of "tease out".
Throughout the book Doctorow invites us to read between the lines, to search for his meaning, to tease out the implications, and these conclusions would seem too obvious to need much inference.
He would enjoy either course, but it was pleasant to tease out the options.
The key to measuring the Weakest Link voting data is to tease out a contestant's playing ability from his race, gender, and age.
She started it to get the advertising tease out of the way, turning the volume to mute.