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

But those cells were bacteria stripped of all but the bare minimum of genes — they weren’t built from the ground up. — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2026

Staffers felt whiplashed as Wang and Zuckerberg rebuilt the company’s AI team from the ground up. — Ben Weiss, Fortune, 9 July 2026

Future projects being planned in the central city for delivery over the next five years will include other office-to-apartment conversions and new housing built from the ground up. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026

Extending the life of an existing nuclear plant is generally less capital-intensive than constructing a new one from the ground up. — Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 9 July 2026

Rhymes for from the ground up

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