Exactly
Exactly adverb - As stated or indicated without the slightest difference.
Just so is a synonym for exactly in exclamation topic. In some cases you can use "Just so" instead an adverb "Exactly", when it comes to topics like precisely.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Cypher Language: When everything in your fictional language just so happens to be exactly the same as your real-life language, only with new words or symbols substituted.
Source: Artistic License Linguistics -
The bust just so happens to snag on the cloak when he pulls it up, and to a witness from exactly the right spot, it looks like your client is flying away from the corpse.
Source: Contrived Coincidence -
Contrived Coincidence: Swann reverses-engineers the Thor from the Odin, and it just so happens his schematics for the Thor are exactly the same as the Dominion Thors.
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