How to Use from the ground up in a Sentence

from the ground up

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  • The reactor was built from the ground up on a greenfield site.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 6 Aug. 2026
  • Upgrade your summer travel wardrobe from the ground up with a new pair of sandals.
    — Caroline Hughes, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026
  • Students design their own course of study across disciplines from the ground up.
    — Anna Demeo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • 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
  • Bose Sleepbuds were one of the first products built from the ground up to solve this exact problem.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Zoox is betting on a vehicle built from the ground up for autonomy.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
  • Zoox’s vehicles are built from the ground up and can’t be directly driven by a human.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Every bracket, pivot point, and linkage was created from the ground up by Fever.
    — New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2026
  • For decades, entrepreneurship has been synonymous with building a company from the ground up.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • Ernie Els' redesign reversed the back-nine routing and rebuilt every green and fairway from the ground up.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Surillo said their family built Villa Nova from the ground up.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The organization was building something from the ground up, and their departures were part of that fresh start.
    — Scott Powers, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • Buckendorf says his company worked closely with Alaska to build Flyways from the ground up.
    — Joel Rose, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026
  • For Andrew, the foundation of that success is built from the ground up — starting with his employees.
    — Allie Canal, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026
  • Redesigned from the ground up, the Beats Pill packs punchy, room-filling sound into a sleek, portable form factor.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Staffers felt whiplashed as Wang and Zuckerberg rebuilt the company’s AI team from the ground up.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune, 9 July 2026
  • Adamala also works from the ground up, but with biological molecules found in nature today.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • While many people dream of being their own boss, far fewer understand the realities of building a business from the ground up.
    — Jennifer Palmer, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Apple has built this powerhouse from the ground up for video editing, music creation, 3D graphics, and more.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 3 July 2026
  • The entire store did a rehaul from the ground up — given that the only thing salvageable were the cement floors and the marble countertops.
    — Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Berman, who has never constructed a building from the ground up, told me his willingness to work around such constraints was his competitive edge.
    — Andrew Rice, Curbed, 23 July 2026
  • The entire Western defense ecosystem must be reformed from the ground up to avoid this fate and ensure it is structured for full-spectrum warfare.
    — Dan Driscoll, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2026
  • For Armbrister, turning that extra income into a sustainable business meant learning how to build one from the ground up.
    — Scott Withers, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2026
  • As one of the region's pioneers, Alpha Estate had the rare chance to build from the ground up with sustainability in mind from day one.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Maybe this will all be different when the technology actually debuts, and games are built from the ground up with its implementation in mind.
    — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 31 Aug. 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
  • The products that will earn clients’ trust are designed from the ground up, close to the friction and client experience, not from those reading industry reports or imagining a spec.
    — Doug Scott, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The building, with its iconic white brick facade, was completely demolished and the new restaurant was rebuilt from the ground up over a long period of construction.
    — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Homeowners need separate insurance to cover physical damage caused by a flood, defined as water entering a home from the ground up.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
  • From solo escapes to six-person group campouts, the Campanero trailer is built from the ground up to serve as a modular platform for comfortable overnighting.
    — New Atlas, 29 Sep. 2026

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