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View synonyms for from the ground up

from the ground up



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Idioms and Phrases

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

He's no doubt telling Trump how he fired everyone at the companies he bought and rebuilt them from the ground up, something which Trump, with his little family business, has never done, having only played a real boss on a reality TV show.

From Salon

It’s the humans, though, that you’ll remember from the ground up: Adams’ camera-friendly energy and hard-won serenity; Keoghan’s cockeyed warmth, just this side of menacing; Rogowski’s strange, commanding woundedness.

But "it was very difficult to start again from the ground up," she says - and definitely a change of pace from The Receipts.

From BBC

Like you're building a world, you're building a house from the ground up with other people and it's amazing when you get to do that with a group of incredible women creators.

From Salon

The next pseudonymous presenter, who called himself the Lancaster Examiner, took a hyper-local focus on how NAR power gets built from the ground up.

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