just on

idiom

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

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Made from coffee beans, instant coffee goes through the same brewing process as ground coffee (beans are ground, brewed with hot water in a large vat), just on a much larger scale. Alexandra Emanuelli, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2025 Tottenham has an inverted winger of their own in Richarlison, just on the other side of the pitch. Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2025 Some parts of Southern California could see 9 inches of rain just on Tuesday night and Wednesday. Kenton Gewecke, ABC News, 22 Dec. 2025 Space Research Organization Netherlands astrophysicist Liyi Gu, who is another author of the study, and colleagues say the process that spawned the storm is not much different from the process that causes solar flares and coronal mass ejections from our own sun — just on a gargantuan scale. Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 9 Dec. 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 31 Dec. 2025.

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