from the ground up
phrase
1
: entirely new or afresh
The car has been redesigned from the ground up.
2
: from the very beginning : thoroughly
built the resort from the ground up
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Smith started in finance and was self-taught in the business of fashion, building brands from the ground up, learning every part of the process–design, product development, manufacturing, marketing–by doing.
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Rebecca Suhrawardi,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
But those cells were bacteria stripped of all but the bare minimum of genes — they weren’t built from the ground up.
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Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
1 July 2026
Future projects being planned in the central city for delivery over the next five years will include other office-to-apartment conversions and new housing built from the ground up.
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Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
The 13th-generation Intel Core i7 processor is one of our top picks for general-purpose mobile computing, designed from the ground up with power efficiency in mind.
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K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
30 June 2026
Fusion fueling focus FFC is developing balance-of-plant systems that allow fusion developers to focus on reactor technology instead of designing supporting infrastructure from the ground up.
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Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
30 June 2026
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Rebecca Suhrawardi,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
But those cells were bacteria stripped of all but the bare minimum of genes — they weren’t built from the ground up.
—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
1 July 2026
Future projects being planned in the central city for delivery over the next five years will include other office-to-apartment conversions and new housing built from the ground up.
—
Roger Vincent,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
The 13th-generation Intel Core i7 processor is one of our top picks for general-purpose mobile computing, designed from the ground up with power efficiency in mind.
—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
30 June 2026
Fusion fueling focus FFC is developing balance-of-plant systems that allow fusion developers to focus on reactor technology instead of designing supporting infrastructure from the ground up.
—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
30 June 2026
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“From the ground up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/from%20the%20ground%20up. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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