How to Use bottom-up in a Sentence

bottom-up

adjective

• 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
• Then the distinction is that bottom-up, in your way of using the term, means building from the foundations.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2025
• So what does this bottom-up adoption mean for the future of global finance?
  — Georgii Verbitskii, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
• 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
• This kind of way of building up mathematics from bottom-up.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2025
• 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
• Shift the focus from top-down directives to bottom-up problem-solving.
  — Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
• This will be a bottom-up movement, a groundswell of people who are looking for new financial models and new heroes.
  — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 1 Aug. 2025
• Each of these acts is a thread in a quiet, bottom-up globalization tapestry.
  — Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
• 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
• The latest chapter provides more hurdles for both Trump’s top-down and bottom-up efforts to bring the federal bureaucracy to heel.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 14 Mar. 2025
• 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
• In light of this backdrop, Citi updated its focus list of bottom-up, highest conviction ideas for North America.
  — Sean Conlon, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2024
• In his view, China’s AI ecosystem is still constrained by censorship, hardware limitations, and a weaker bottom-up innovation culture.
  — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 22 July 2025