bottom up

Example Sentences

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Since the start of the conflict, full-year earnings-per-share forecasts for the S&P 500 as a whole have risen slightly, according to bottom-up numbers from FactSet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

The organization, as much as it can be called one, is bottom-up, nimble and local.

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

“Our bottom-up view of consumer and enterprise use cases suggests it may generate up to $5 trillion in impact by 2030—equivalent to the size of the world’s third-largest economy,” analysts at McKinsey predicted in 2022.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Dr. Anderson has found that babies mostly glance at television because of the bottom-up system—in other words, they are responding to changes in sound and light.

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