JUST AS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does just as mean? 

• JUST AS (adverb)
  The adverb JUST AS has 1 sense:

1. at the same time as

  Familiarity information: JUST AS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUST AS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At the same time as

Synonyms:

even as; just as

Context example:

the building collapsed just as he arrived

 Context examples 

They come and they go, and they don't come and they don't go, just as they like.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Just as they were about to sit down and eat, there was a knocking outside.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

And then, just as suddenly, like the sun rising on a stormy sea, they would begin to laugh.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I used manifold, and so took three copies of the diary, just as I had done with all the rest.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

So the Scarecrow climbed farther up and sat down on the top of the wall, and Dorothy put her head over and cried, "Oh, my!" just as the Scarecrow had done.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“I offer you eight hundred for him, sir, before the test, sir; eight hundred just as he stands.”

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I'm too happy to care what anyone says or thinks, and I'm going to have my little wedding just as I like it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory later observed that the source - known as an ultraluminous X-ray source, or ULX - had disappeared just as quickly.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

On Wednesday, Nov. 29, they learned the TCM thrusters worked perfectly — and just as well as the attitude control thrusters.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)

“For women who had complications during their first pregnancy, routine health care — watching blood pressure, weight, and cholesterol— is just as critical.”

(First-time pregnancy complications linked to increased risk of hypertension later in life, National Institutes of Health)