How to Use top-down in a Sentence
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Gone are the days when leaders could set rigid, top-down goals.
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Glenn Llopis,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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But top-down change is slow and often misses the mark.
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Bob Coleman,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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Start with a pilot, not top-down orders.
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Andrei Cretu,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Two first-round draft picks are nice and so is top-down leadership.
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Sean Joseph Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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But this is completely top-down.
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Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2026
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But Boss isn’t purely top-down driven.
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Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
27 Oct. 2025
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These tools didn't enter through a top-down deployment plan.
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Joseph Freed,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The future of high-performing teams isn’t built top-down.
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Susan Curtin,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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It was filled with top-down mandates that override the voices of our towns and cities.
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Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
23 June 2025
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Please consider a free trial to access our top-down views and more stock ideas.
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Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
23 June 2025
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Instead of a third-person action stealth game, this one is at a top-down angle.
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George Yang,
Vulture,
3 Sep. 2025
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But some of it was informed by strategic top-down directives.
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Mick Ryan,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Feb. 2024
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Letting people say, not just top-down, but get the people themselves.
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Quanta Magazine,
10 July 2025
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That should start top-down, with management that leads by example.
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Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
21 June 2024
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Trump is more of a top-down negotiator who likes the broad strokes of a deal to be worked ahead of the fine print.
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Tobias Burns,
The Hill,
2 July 2025
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Just another way the business isn’t top-down anymore.
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Julian Sancton,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Dec. 2025
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The jury saw photos and video of the scene, including one gory top-down photo.
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John Annese,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2026
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This is a top-down shipwreck that touches every part of a losing franchise.
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Dom Luszczyszyn,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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That quest has become an own-goal, exposing the limits of his top-down control.
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Chun Han Wong,
WSJ,
2 Mar. 2023
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Blindspot is a top-down tactical shooter in which teams of five players face off against each other.
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Kristan Hawkins,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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That’s a brash top-down directive that has taken hold of businesses.
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Cerys Goodall,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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Critics warned that the measure would lead to a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach to mental health care in the state.
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Vik Jolly,
Sacramento Bee,
15 May 2024
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And it won’t be solved by job descriptions, dashboards, or top-down messaging.
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Nirit Cohen,
Forbes.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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Stone says the old top-down, power-shower approach doesn't work anymore and isn't going to work.
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Jon Stojan,
USA TODAY,
20 July 2023
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The former fits a top-down drive, while the latter gives off a nighttime, moody, rainy-day vibe, Clardy said.
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The Indianapolis Star,
23 Feb. 2024
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Falling back on the old, top-down way of doing things won't fix the problem, Reisinger argues.
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Nick Rockel,
Fortune,
24 May 2024
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Rebellion spread more through graffiti, chants, and songs than through top-down orders.
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Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Of course, top-down influences contribute to their success rate.
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Katie Stockton,
CNBC,
25 May 2026
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Dip the apples top-down into the candy melts, set them on wax paper, and cover them with sprinkles.
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Kimberly Stoney,
Parents,
19 Mar. 2025
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Key voices say the party is too centralized, too top-down and too afraid to challenge its young leader.
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Thomas Adamson,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2025
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