Usually means: At that exact moment when.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (just then)

▸ adverb:  (set phrase) Very close to a given moment.

Similar:
just now, not a minute too soon, just in time, fast, then and there, any time now, coming on, approaching, about time, any minute now, more...

Opposite:
now, later, afterwards, subsequently

Phrases:
did grief disappear just then, just like back then, more...

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Similar:
just now, not a minute too soon, just in time, fast, then and there, any time now, coming on, approaching, about time, any minute now, more...

Opposite:
now, later, afterwards, subsequently

Phrases:
did grief disappear just then, just like back then, more...



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