only just
Example Sentences
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It’s thought that the actress has only just completed renovations on the property, which was still undergoing major work at the end of 2025.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026
"We're only just beginning to understand this new class of cosmic events."
From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026
But Kemp, only just returning to bowling after more than a year of back injury restrictions, came to the fore again by having the classy Smriti Mandhana caught at deep square leg for 32.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
If they want income, there’s a problem: Dividends on the S&P are only just over 1%—and only a whisker above their lowest ever, in 2000.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
It smelt of hunter and prey and Fast Wet and tree, all chewed up together, and from it came a high, thin humming: so high that Wolf could only just catch it.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
