casenoun(SITUATION)

just in case | American Dictionary

just in case

idiom
to protect against something bad that could happen:
I’ll take my umbrella too, just in case.

Examples of (just) in case

(just) in case
It felt frustrated and decided to go to her village justincase she had decided to return there.
It tells us that an action is rational justincase it maximizes expected utility.
You possess a context-insensitive character trait justincase you would display its characteristic behavior across a broad range of normal circumstances.
The conjunction of two constraints is violated justincase both constraints are violated together.
One acts wrongly justincase one fails to do what one ought; one acts rightly justincase one avoids acting wrongly.
In some languages, however, laryngeally similar segments are allowed justincase they are identical.
Something belongs to the extension of "law" justincase it would be deemed by the average speaker as relevantly similar to paradigm cases.
A judge conforms to such a rule justincase he correctly evaluates conduct in a manner specified by the rule.
The betterness relation is impartial justincase, roughly, it is indifferent to which individuals are leading particular sorts of lives.
For a binary relation between lotteries satisfies the expected utility axioms justincase it is a continuous ordering which satisfies strong independence.
Just desserts theory suggests that x deserves f justincase f is the logical consequence of some prior action.
A higher-order property is causally relevant justincase it programs for the presence of an efficacious property at a lower level.
Finally, a syllogism is certain justincase it causes us to have knowledge simply by existing in us.
For someone has authority over others in a legal system justincase the latter are under obligations to heed the pronouncements of the former.
Of interest to the present study is the observation that downgrading is systematically blocked justincase the first word contains a long vowel.
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