How to Use bottom-up in a Sentence

bottom-up

adjective
  • The right approach is bottom-up.
    — Aswin Saravanan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • This is something that's going to be done in a bottom-up way.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • So what does this bottom-up adoption mean for the future of global finance?
    — Georgii Verbitskii, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025
  • Whether such bottom-up modes of resistance will work and for whom remains an open question.
    — Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Adding in this new bottom-up search for the unexpected marks a new paradigm.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Each was bottom-up—youth-native, slightly chaotic, coded as theirs.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 20 May 2026
  • But that sponsorship must be paired with a bottom-up ambassador network.
    — Peter Fitzgibbon, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Shift the focus from top-down directives to bottom-up problem-solving.
    — Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • But China’s advantage may lie in its bottom-up approach.
    — Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Each of these acts is a thread in a quiet, bottom-up globalization tapestry.
    — Vivian Toh, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • The bottom-up is creating this with, and for, autistic people and their families.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
  • 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
  • This resulted in bottom-up freezing, which minimizes air bubbles in the ice.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025
  • That bottom-up approach creates delays and a lag time in processing ballots.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Engineer a top-down and bottom-up champion network.
    — Peter Fitzgibbon, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • However, there’s no such formal, bottom-up structure in place for women’s baseball.
    — David K. Li, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The show that began as a bottom-up look at the cutthroat world of finance has metamorphosed into something more dismal.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • This dual-layer strategy ensures that a top-down vision doesn't drown out the bottom-up needs that power the business.
    — Andy Watts, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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 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
  • Success requires both top-down commitment and bottom-up enablement.
    — Ruba Borno, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The left image shows bottom-up diffusion, in which information spreads from person to person.
    — Mary Magnuson, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There’s a very strong bottom-up feedback cycle that works, and is really important for us as a direct-to-consumer business.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
  • The entire instrument had to be dismantled and shipped back to Quebec for a bottom-up rebuilding.
    — Dallas News, 15 Feb. 2023

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