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JUST ABOUT
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Example:
20 or so people were at the party
Synonyms:
about; approximately; around; close to; just about; more or less; or so; roughly; some
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Context examples:
It's 'Overdue,' of course, and I'm just about halfway through.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
An' while I'm wishin', I wisht the trip was over an' done with, an' you an' me a-sittin' by the fire in Fort McGurry just about now an' playing cribbage—that's what I wisht.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I suppose you are a stranger in these parts, or you would have heard what happened last autumn,—Thornfield Hall is quite a ruin: it was burnt down just about harvest-time.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"The implications of this work are not just about probiotics, but also about guiding agricultural practices," said study leader Britt Koskella.
(How do you cultivate a healthy plant microbiome?, National Science Foundation)
I know that my juvenile experiences went for little or nothing then; and that life was more like a great fairy story, which I was just about to begin to read, than anything else.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
And that, said he, is just about as good as nothing.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The screw was a pound a week rise, and the duties just about the same as at Coxon’s.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Can you remember any unusual incident in your life just about the time your symptoms began?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"I wish we had just about two of them cartridges that's layin' in that cache of ourn," said the second man.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
His voice was hoarse; his look that of a man who is just about to burst an insufferable bond and plunge headlong into wild license.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
