bottom-up
adjective
bot·tom-up
ˈbä-təm-ˈəp 
: progressing upward from the lowest levels (as of a stratified organization or system)
bottom-up management
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Success requires both top-down commitment and bottom-up enablement.
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Ruba Borno, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
That trio has been pivotal in making GM Don Sweeney’s bottom-up retool work, at least to this point.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
To include more staff members in the process of developing AI tools, some institutions have implemented a bottom-up approach in addition to a top-down approach.
—Hilke Schellmann, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
For years, astronomers have debated whether planets this massive could form through core accretion, the slow, bottom-up process in which solid material clumps together into a dense core that then pulls in vast amounts of gas.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2026
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Ruba Borno, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
That trio has been pivotal in making GM Don Sweeney’s bottom-up retool work, at least to this point.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 11 Mar. 2026
To include more staff members in the process of developing AI tools, some institutions have implemented a bottom-up approach in addition to a top-down approach.
—Hilke Schellmann, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2026
For years, astronomers have debated whether planets this massive could form through core accretion, the slow, bottom-up process in which solid material clumps together into a dense core that then pulls in vast amounts of gas.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Bottom-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bottom-up. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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