How to Use would just as soon in a Sentence
would just as soon
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Which leaves Toronto as the only team that most advertisers would just as soon hit the links well before the season draws to a close at month’s end.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Many Utahns would just as soon pave it, but as Bill Gifford learned during a yearlong exploration, there is beauty and natural splendor here that deserves to live on.
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Hayden Carpenter,
Outside Online,
25 Dec. 2021
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Many Utahns would just as soon pave it, but as Bill Gifford learned during a yearlong exploration, there’s beauty and natural splendor here that deserves to live on.
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Hayden Carpenter,
Outside Online,
25 Dec. 2021
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Disney wants to bump its fee of however-many dollars per sub, while YouTube TV would just as soon cough up an amount below Disney’s asking price.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
14 Nov. 2025
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The former union carpenter who began his political career back in 2005 with an unsuccessful Democratic primary bid for Congress, would just as soon not be addressed as mayor.
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Denise Crosby,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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Buried beneath Milan’s rush to the modern from the Middle Ages — just beyond the Duomo Cathedral, which was begun in 1386, is the massive 15th Century Sforza Castle — lies a more recent history the city would just as soon forget.
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Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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