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| just the same |
| 1. adv. Anyway; despite. |
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| He didn't like it one bit, but he smiled just the same. |
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| Analysis |
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| just |
| 1. adj. Factually right, correct; factual. |
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| It is a just assessment of the facts. |
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| 2. adj. Rationally right, correct. |
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| 3. adj. Morally right; upright, righteous, equitable; fair. |
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| It looks like a just solution at first glance. |
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| the |
| 1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already |
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| I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.) |
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| The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.) |
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| The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird. |
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| 2. art. Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause. |
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| same |
| 1. adj. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical. |
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| Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday? |
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| I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force. |
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| Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens. |
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| Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went. |
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