from the ground up

Idioms  

1. From the very beginning; also, completely, thoroughly. For example, We've had to learn a new system from the ground up, or The company changed all of the forms from the ground up. This expression alludes to the construction of a house, which begins with the foundation.

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Example Sentences

Tesla will show the world what happens when you build a battery-powered vehicle from the ground up.

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The wave of money, which has already upended power companies, is now flooding into contractors, cooling firms and electrical-equipment makers that are racing to build more data centers from the ground up.

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“We are building entire communities from the ground up.”

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In order for miners to begin operations in Greenland, not only would they need to find the metals and rare-earth elements underground, but they would need to build the infrastructure to mine them from the ground up, Macpherson said.

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But Uber’s experience is that it often has to throw away an entire process and rebuild from the ground up to truly tap the enterprise power of AI.

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