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The phrase "a ground up" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression is "from the ground up," which is used to indicate starting from the very beginning or from the most basic level.
Example: "We built the software from the ground up to ensure it meets all our requirements."
Alternatives: "from scratch" or "from the bottom up."
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The Linux kernel was a ground up, clean implementation of the UNIX api, with plenty of rethinking and redesign along the way.
To make a real dent challenging that system of oppression we need to get going on tearing it down to prepare for a ground up restructuring.
Ripcord has since built a ground, up solution for fully digitizing paper records, including a series of robotic digitizers capable of doing their work in "a tenth of the time and a tenth of what the competition charges".
Measure M is not a "ground up" tax which deserves support from the residents of LA County.
And I love how coffee tastes when there's a tablespoon of a ground up Simon & Garfunkel record mixed in.
A ground up townhouse on the Upper Eastside acts as both an art gallery and a comfortable home for a family.
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They were told a ground-up is mandatory.
This was a ground-up development that was originally planned as being a condo.
It's been a ground-up reworking to bring you a new, advanced and beautiful Guardian app.
That's a ground-up development site of 175,000 square feet that'll be a 20-story tower.
Judges praised what they called "a ground-up approach to regeneration, city planning and development in opposition to corporate gentrification".
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