The phrase "analyze the idea" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing or examining a concept, thought, or proposal in detail.
Example: "In this essay, I will analyze the idea of freedom and its implications in modern society."
Alternatives: "examine the concept" or "evaluate the notion."
Mr. Gruber was again brought in to analyze the idea, which he had not formally modeled before.
In this seminar, we critically examine relationships between corporations and citizens, and analyze the idea of corporation as citizen.
To be successful in sidestepping our System 1 tendencies, one of the best strategies is to shelve a hot investment idea for a week and think about it analytically — or employ a trusted adviser to analyze the idea carefully.
In this paper, we first theoretically analyze the idea of adopting data parallelism when designing a parallel clustering algorithm for PCs cluster systems, including analysis of speedup and selection of communication schemes.
It's only genius, however, if the nonconservative media — honorable liberals and evenhanded moderates alike — continue to accept the claim that immigration reform by fiat would just be politics as usual, and to analyze the idea strictly in terms of its political effects (on Latino turnout, Democratic fund-raising, G.O.P. internal strife).
How can you get the conversation to change and the attendees to really analyze the idea and refine it?
Young people, then, in short, as well as adults, deserve to have rational tools with which to analyze the ideas that they encounter in their lives.
Based on the processes of Qinghai Tibet Railway construction, the present paper discussed and analyzed the idea of dynamic design and its applications.
For example, in analyzing the idea of radical financial innovations in macro risk management, Shiller, (2006b) argues that such financial innovations would be possible only if combining existing information technology with institutional aspects like behavioral finance is considered.
They analyzed the ideas to see if they involved something of critical value to a customer.
The next year -- at 1,168 pages and with a price of $192.95 -- Greenwood brought out his latest writing effort, "Every Thing in Dickens," which Mr. Newlin calls a topicon, or topical concordance, analyzing the ideas of Dickens's work.
