Synonyms for bottom-up
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1. bottom-upadjective

   Antonyms:
   top-down

2. bottom-upadjective

   Antonyms:
   top-down

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1. bottom-upadjective

   of an approach to a problem that begins with details and works up to the highest conceptual level

   "bottom-up parser"; "a bottom-up model of the reading process"

   Antonyms:
   top-down

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1. List of paraphrases for "bottom-up":

   ascending, upward, ascendant, upstream, participatory, upshift, ascendancy

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1. Frank Lloyd Wright:

   I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.

2. Republican Party:

   Eric Adams is trying to attack the problem from the top down, which won't work, you've got to attack the problem from the bottom up. And we saw that it worked with Rudy Giuliani, who turned the city around in 1993. Why wouldn't you use the same set of principles that worked in the '90s? Why are you trying to reinvent the process?

3. Mike Huckabee:

   I think that a lot of fundamentals of Tea Party have economic policies that empower people from the bottom up rather than have an economy that works from the top down.

4. Mayor Bill de Blasio:

   Instead of a top-down approach, we are now doing a bottom-up approach, the best reforms happen from the grassroots.

5. John Carr:

   He is a walking, talking parable, this is a Pope who looks at the world from the bottom up and from the outside in. I think he brings to Congress and the White House a different perspective than they are used to hearing.