theorize about

theorize about (someone or something)

To speculate, conjecture, or make guesses about someone or something. Everyone has been theorizing about what the company's next product might be. If I'm going into business with someone, I don't want to have to speculate about them, their past, or their motivations—I want concrete facts.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

theorize about someone or something

to hypothesize about someone or something; to conjecture about someone or something. Let's not waste time theorizing about Ted. He won't change. I can only theorize about what happened.
See also: theorize
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
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  • speculate on (something)
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* Value creation resides at the core of every company, and most organizations theorize about how to do it, rather than rolling up their sleeves and making it happen.
Get into the value habit: knowing what makes your company valuable is important, but it's not enough. Getting from "knowing" to "doing" requires real change. Here are eight behaviors that have helped organizations bridge the "knowing-doing" gap
Alley recounts the Greenland expedition and shows the methodology he and his colleagues have used to theorize about how climate changes over long periods.
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
Forty years ago, as a young assistant professor of economics at Purdue University, Smith championed the then-unheard-of notion that economists who theorize about human behavior could learn something useful by actually observing some human behavior, preferably in controlled
Stuffing Envelopes
In 1978, investigations into children's theories of mind got a major boost from a controversial article in which two researchers suggested that chimpanzees theorize about mental states.
Other researchers argue that a child's ability to theorize about mental life depends on a specialized brain mechanism that exerts its influence by around age 2, when children begin to use pretense.
A child's theory of mind: mental life may change radically around age 4
The Berkeley philosopher says it often proves tempting to theorize about thought processes unavailable to consciousness, especially when studying complex abilities such as language learning.
Rethinking the mind; cognitive science faces a philosophical challenge