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from the ground up

ADVERB
from scratch
Synonyms
WEAK
from square one from the top initially

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"Over the last nine months, Meta Superintelligence Labs rebuilt our AI stack from the ground up," the tech titan said in a blog post.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

“If the company can now redesign their operations from the ground up to be AI-forward, their potential cost and performance advantage could be insurmountable,” Shmulik wrote.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 16, 2026

“Having built this category from the ground up it feels like extra pressure on us to keep it alive,” Bullock said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

Aguado explains that this approach allows researchers to construct the system from the ground up.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026

I found out later that it glowed because it had sucked phosphorus from the ground up into the wood and held the light from day all night.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen