bottom up

Example Sentences

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This was both top-down and bottom-up, organizing and working together.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

That bottom-up approach creates delays and a lag time in processing ballots.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

A bottom-up model that engages both citizens and elected officials forms the foundation of the project.

From Science Daily • Feb. 14, 2026

Having said that, we do an annual, bottom-up, internal-rate-of-return analysis for almost every S&P 500 company once a year.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

Dr. Anderson has concluded that television’s lure owes its powerful appeal to two parts of attention that often compete: the top-down system and the bottom-up system.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel