bottom-up
adjective
bot·tom-up
ˈbä-təm-ˈəp 
: progressing upward from the lowest levels (as of a stratified organization or system)
bottom-up management
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Size your market using bottom-up and top-down methods.
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Jodie Cook, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Another alternative to watering plants from the typical top-down direction is to go bottom-up.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
This is a bottom-up approach to rewriting the genome.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
However, with high yield credit, Vanguard is focusing on bottom-up security selection due to the dispersion among issuers.
—Michelle Fox, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
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Jodie Cook, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Another alternative to watering plants from the typical top-down direction is to go bottom-up.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
This is a bottom-up approach to rewriting the genome.
—Quanta Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
However, with high yield credit, Vanguard is focusing on bottom-up security selection due to the dispersion among issuers.
—Michelle Fox, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Bottom-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bottom-up. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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