How to Use top-down in a Sentence
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Keep moving, and again, this is kind of a top-down view.
— Josh Criswell, Chron, 8 Mar. 2023 -
The former fits a top-down drive, while the latter gives off a nighttime, moody, rainy-day vibe, Clardy said.
— The Indianapolis Star, 23 Feb. 2024 -
Critics warned that the measure would lead to a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach to mental health care in the state.
— Vik Jolly, Sacramento Bee, 15 May 2024 -
Falling back on the old, top-down way of doing things won't fix the problem, Reisinger argues.
— Nick Rockel, Fortune, 24 May 2024 -
Read the rest of Tara’s story on the challenges of top-down tech changes within a hospital.
— Bob Herman Reprints, STAT, 22 Jan. 2024 -
This top-down wipe warmer can hold up to 100 wipes, keeping them warm and moist for your baby’s little bum.
— Maya Polton, Parents, 4 Aug. 2023 -
The car is parked top-down and decorated with the aforementioned red bow in the image.
— Liza Esquibias, Peoplemag, 11 July 2023 -
Censorship by fear can take two forms: top-down or bottom-up.
— Russell Jacoby, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023 -
Stone says the old top-down, power-shower approach doesn't work anymore and isn't going to work.
— Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 20 July 2023 -
Tarang says that this top-down, from the C-suite to the shipping department, inclusive approach works at e.l.f..
— Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024 -
That quest has become an own-goal, exposing the limits of his top-down control.
— Chun Han Wong, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023 -
But some of it was informed by strategic top-down directives.
— Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024 -
Pat the apple dry Then dip the apples top-down into the candy melts, set them on wax paper, and cover them with sprinkles.
— Kimberly Stoney, Parents, 21 Mar. 2024 -
The best practices, Pringle believes, will not be issued top-down, but emerge out of the first waves of schools that are excited to study and integrate AI.
— Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024 -
That should start top-down, with management that leads by example.
— Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024 -
And Then De-Risk Using a top-down and bottom-up approach can typically give you the high and low of your quarter, so use it as a guide.
— Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 May 2023 -
Except for the Panther Kallista, no affordable top-down sportster has come to market within the past decade.
— Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023 -
This type of top-down level success continued into the 2000s.
— Leah Asmelash, CNN, 8 Sep. 2024 -
For something fun and beachy, consider going top-down and renting a Jeep Wrangler from Jeep Destin for a day or longer.
— Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2024 -
But top-down approaches may still be effective, Pant says.
— Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023 -
Such top-down reporting thus does more than simply raise consciousness about sources and causes of GHGs.
— IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023 -
The views shown are the first-person views of three HoloLens 2 users and one top-down view of a satellite map with all team members visible throughout the entire demonstration.
— IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023 -
The particular blend of top-down leadership and bottom-up encouragement is unique to each of these brands, and each needs to find their own way.
— Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 8 Sep. 2023 -
Key to the success of this transformative process is leading by example, top-down.
— Christoph Knitter, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 -
It was built through a novel top-down construction method and is now nearly finished and expected to open in July.
— Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 29 Apr. 2023 -
Moreover, Kendi, despite his public gestures of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, has a top-down view of change.
— Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023 -
For the first time, in his view, leadership wasn’t managing the conference with top-down directives.
— Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2023 -
By the lead-up to January 6th, the situation had become more complicated: now some of it was top-down.
— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023 -
Providing more housing has a top-down effect on the quality of lives of residents.
— Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Mechanically, the game looks and controls like a classic Zelda game with a top-down isometric view, and the whole engine looks to be lifted from 2019’s remake of Link’s Awakening.
— Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
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