just now
idiom
1
: a moment ago
I saw him just now.
2
: at this moment
They are just now heading out the door.
Examples of just now in a Sentence
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The Trump campaign also is just now getting access to the Republican National Committee support since officially securing the nomination.
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Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
At the time, a number of cuts from the longer and slightly reworked take on her album Speak Now invaded the Country Digital Song Sales list, but not all of them could carve out a space, which helps explain, in part, why this track is only just now debuting.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
A lot of that run is thanks to Josh Hubbard, the 5-foot-10 freshman out of Madison, Wisconsin, who went on a 5-point run himself just now.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2024
That’s impossible just now, because border politics have lost any semblance of sanity.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
These diseases are just now finding their way into our area.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2024
While Piper Sandler’s chief economist Nancy Lazar also cautioned that the country was just now moving into the time frame in which a recession might be expected.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
These still-developing technologies are just now being trialed and tested within major manufacturing facilities.
—Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
Jacksonville, just now recovering from a bout of irrational ideological exuberance, is down to its last Confederate monument.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 27 Feb. 2024
Franco Ordoñez, NPR, 29 Mar. 2024
At the time, a number of cuts from the longer and slightly reworked take on her album Speak Now invaded the Country Digital Song Sales list, but not all of them could carve out a space, which helps explain, in part, why this track is only just now debuting.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
A lot of that run is thanks to Josh Hubbard, the 5-foot-10 freshman out of Madison, Wisconsin, who went on a 5-point run himself just now.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 22 Mar. 2024
That’s impossible just now, because border politics have lost any semblance of sanity.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
These diseases are just now finding their way into our area.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2024
While Piper Sandler’s chief economist Nancy Lazar also cautioned that the country was just now moving into the time frame in which a recession might be expected.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
These still-developing technologies are just now being trialed and tested within major manufacturing facilities.
—Popular Science, 29 Feb. 2024
Jacksonville, just now recovering from a bout of irrational ideological exuberance, is down to its last Confederate monument.
—Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 27 Feb. 2024
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