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from the ground up

adverb as in from scratch

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But no matter how annoying those liberals might be, it remains undoubtedly true that “cancel culture”—whatever that means—bubbled from the ground up, and was sharpened by the coalition’s allies in the media and elsewhere.

From Slate

"Cyprus is a nation with such a love of football and, in Pafos, we believed that we had an opportunity to build something from the ground up."

From BBC

“This was my first opportunity to develop something from the ground up,” Wright says.

Before going onstage in front of a crowd of a suburban crowd at the Brea Improv, the comedian’s Zen-like confidence felt like yet another thing she’s built from the ground up, along with her comedy career ... and probably a patio deck or two.

But Reset is the first hotel to be built from the ground up in the area in 15 years.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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