How to Use bottom-up in a Sentence
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This is something that's going to be done in a bottom-up way.
—Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
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For most of that history, even through Charlottesville, the patterns of the far right were all bottom-up.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
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Censorship by fear can take two forms: top-down or bottom-up.
—Russell Jacoby, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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Within 24 hours, spurred by the challenge, the two had results in hand for the bottom-up coupling estimate.
—Stanley J. Brodsky, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
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Whether such bottom-up modes of resistance will work and for whom remains an open question.
—Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
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And Then De-Risk Using a top-down and bottom-up approach can typically give you the high and low of your quarter, so use it as a guide.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 May 2023
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The bottom-up is creating this with, and for, autistic people and their families.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
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The particular blend of top-down leadership and bottom-up encouragement is unique to each of these brands, and each needs to find their own way.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2023
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The gathering at the Vatican, which for the first time will include and give a vote to laypeople — including women — is central to Francis’s bottom-up view of the church.
—Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
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So one route of reaching voters is what Wilson calls bottom-up – like canvassing, texting, or telling people to talk to their friends.
—Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
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The entire instrument had to be dismantled and shipped back to Quebec for a bottom-up rebuilding.
—Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
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With this in mind, Citi updated its focus list for North America – a basket of bottom-up stock ideas with the highest conviction for the next 12 months.
—Sean Conlon, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
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The bottom-up approach, in contrast, would build on stem cells' ability to sustain themselves and make repairs if damaged.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
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The logo will have a futuristic font and will be positioned at the top, tipped on its side, reading from the bottom-up, slightly overlapping the main image.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 4 Mar. 2024
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The conversation on boosting economic growth is redolent of the 1980s, when top-down planning gave way to bottom-up commerce.
—Alexander William Salter, National Review, 24 Aug. 2023
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The group suggested a bottom-up residual structure whereby top earners would be the last to collect residuals rather than the first.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
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There are a lot of smaller projects out there, a lot of digital projects, that are really trying to emphasize more bottom-up histories.
—Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 1 July 2024
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But the book makes clear the limitations of the bottom-up approach: the cast of characters is so large, and their stories so intermingled, that the narrative lacks coherence.
—Peter Englund, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
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Moreover, the work of transition can be neither top-down (i.e., mold the leader to fit the organization) nor bottom-up (i.e., mold the organization to fit the leader).
—Sam Rockwell, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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The left image shows bottom-up diffusion, in which information spreads from person to person.
—Mary Magnuson, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
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Prey fish are down from historical levels due to both bottom-up and top-down effects, according to most scientists.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2023
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Parts of the organization might consider moving from top-down leadership styles to those that are bottom-up, according to the report.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2023
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Accountability and the prioritization of DEIB need to happen both top-down as well as bottom-up.
—Cara Brennan Allamano, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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The firm, which manages $7.2 billion in assets and specializes in bottom-up value investing, held 4.3 million Smartsheet shares as of its latest filing for the second quarter.
—Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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For that bottom-up rotational motion which will target the lower abs, Cavaliere recommends the corkscrew.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
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This interpretation is based on the point of view of individual photons and can be termed bottom-up or reductionist.
—Pravir Malik, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
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But with free agency and the expansion draft around the corner, the organization is looking to develop a bottom-up culture, in many ways representing the origins of Cousins’ Reading FC teams.
—Sven Karabegovic, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2023
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The bottom-up approach that had dominated nearly a year of the government’s time had not yielded any significant connection to Trump’s orbit.
—Carol D. Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
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Late that summer, members of the team leading one of the most high-profile parts of the bottom-up probe into members of the Oath Keepers became frustrated, according to people familiar with the investigation.
—Carol D. Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2023
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That bottom-up formulation has given leverage to the creators speaking to everyday players.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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