think through

think through (third-person singular simple present thinks through, present participle thinking through, simple past and past participle thought through)

1. To fully consider, so as to understand all the consequences of.
   • 2020, Cory Doctorow, Attack Surface, Tor Books, →ISBN:

     The fact that North America was the epicenter of the cataclysm, though acknowledged, has profound implications for our understanding of the human past that archaeologists have never thought through—in part because the scale of the cataclysm is only now beginning to be fully mapped out.