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just on

idiom

British, informal
: exactly : precisely
It was just on midnight.

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The datasets needed to explore and understand this diversity are just on the horizon. Morgan Underwood, The Conversation, 19 Nov. 2025 And that was tricky because those scenes just on paper Peter reads as a villain and reads as threatening to his wife and is willing to show himself in that light to her. Hilary Lewis, HollywoodReporter, 17 Nov. 2025 By that metric, California wasted more than $13 billion just on pedestrian deaths in 2023. Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025 The retired banker had heart bypass surgery earlier this year, and before that had been spending almost 8,000 rupees ($90) a month just on his insulin. Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 8 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for just on

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“Just on.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/just%20on. Accessed 26 Nov. 2025.

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