from the ground up

phrase

1

: entirely new or afresh

The car has been redesigned from the ground up.

2

: from the very beginning : thoroughly

built the resort from the ground up

Examples of from the ground up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

An internal skunkworks was set up in California with a brief to rethink the idea of a universal EV platform from the ground up, taking into account the advances made by EV startups and clean-sheet designs both in the US but especially China. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026

The reactor was built from the ground up on a greenfield site. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026

Surillo said their family built Villa Nova from the ground up. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026

But neither country has yet built truly AI-native applications, ones conceived from the ground up around AI rather than AI added to existing software, and that prize remains open. — Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for from the ground up

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• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup