How to Use bottom-up in a Sentence

bottom-up

adjective
  • Another alternative to watering plants from the typical top-down direction is to go bottom-up.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
  • This is something that's going to be done in a bottom-up way.
    Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Censorship by fear can take two forms: top-down or bottom-up.
    Russell Jacoby, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • Whether such bottom-up modes of resistance will work and for whom remains an open question.
    Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • The bottom-up is creating this with, and for, autistic people and their families.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The entire instrument had to be dismantled and shipped back to Quebec for a bottom-up rebuilding.
    Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The left image shows bottom-up diffusion, in which information spreads from person to person.
    Mary Magnuson, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Accountability and the prioritization of DEIB need to happen both top-down as well as bottom-up.
    Cara Brennan Allamano, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • For that bottom-up rotational motion which will target the lower abs, Cavaliere recommends the corkscrew.
    Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hagerty weaves a bottom-up history of state terror, turning a contemplative eye on the communities and the scientists who are left to pick up the pieces, literally, of violent conflict.
    Benjamin P. Russell, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023

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