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JusBrasil

JusBrasil is a Brazilian legal-information platform that indexes more than 1 billion court lawsuits and sells search, monitoring, and background-check services, founded in 2008 in Salvador, Bahia.

Juscelino Kubitschek

Juscelino Kubitschek, known as JK, was a Brazilian physician and politician who served as president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961 and built the new capital, Brasília.

Jusda International Supply Chain

Jusda International Supply Chain (准时达) is a Chinese B2B supply chain management company founded in 2010 from Foxconn's logistics unit, valued above RMB 17 billion in 2019.

Juse

Juse is a competitive patience (multiplayer solitaire) card game popular in Sri Lanka, played with a 52-card pack and cyclic rank order; players build suit foundations and discard piles, and penalties are announced by calling "Juse".

Jusepe de Ribera

Jusepe de Ribera, also José de Ribera, called Lo Spagnoletto (1591–1652), Spanish painter and etcher active in Naples; Caravaggesque tenebrism, Spanish viceregal patrons, Certosa di San Martino and San Gennaro commissions, The Clubfoot (1642).

Jusepín Oil Field

The Jusepín Oil Field is an oil field in Monagas state, eastern Venezuela, discovered in 1938; it peaked at about 54,000 barrels a day in 1946 before PDVSA shut it in 1989.

Jushan Bai

Jushan Bai is a Chinese-born econometrician and professor of economics at Columbia University, known for the Bai–Perron theory of multiple structural breaks and for large-dimensional factor models.

Jushin Liger

Jushin "Thunder" Liger (獣神サンダー・ライガー), ring persona of Keiichi Yamada, retired NJPW junior heavyweight wrestler (1984–2020), inventor of the Shooting Star Press, 11-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, 2020 WWE Hall of Fame inductee.

Jushuitan (聚水潭)

Jushuitan (聚水潭), legally JST Group Corporation Limited, is a Shanghai-based e-commerce SaaS ERP provider founded in 2014 by Luo Haidong, China's largest with a 24.4% market share.

Jushur

Jushur, also written Ngushur, is the legendary first king of the First Dynasty of Kish in the Sumerian King List, said to reign 1,200 years immediately after the flood.

Juspay

Juspay, formally Juspay Technologies Private Limited, is a Bengaluru-based payments orchestration company founded in 2012, which became India's first unicorn of 2026 after a $50 million WestBridge Capital round.

Jussi Adler-Olsen

Jussi Adler-Olsen (Carl Valdemar Jussi Henry Adler-Olsen, born 1950) is a Danish crime writer, creator of the Department Q series about detective Carl Mørck, with over 30 million copies sold, the Glass Key and Barry awards, and the Netflix adaptation Dept. Q.

Jussi Jääskeläinen

Jussi Jääskeläinen (Jussi Albert Jääskeläinen), born 1975, is a Finnish former goalkeeper who spent 15 seasons at Bolton Wanderers and won 56 caps for Finland.

Jussi Taipale

Jussi Taipale, born 1968, is a Finnish biochemist who studies how gene activity is controlled, known for mapping transcription factor binding and developing HT-SELEX and CAP-SELEX methods.

Jussie Smollett

Jussie Smollett, American actor and singer, child star of The Mighty Ducks and On Our Own, breakout Jamal Lyon on Empire, later convicted of staging a 2019 Chicago hate crime hoax, conviction overturned by the Illinois Supreme Court in 2024.

Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax

The Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax: the 2019 staged racist, homophobic attack the Empire actor reported in Chicago, leading to dropped charges, a special prosecutor, a 2021 conviction, and a 2024 Illinois Supreme Court reversal.

Jussier Formiga

Jussier Formiga (Jussier da Silva), Brazilian flyweight MMA fighter born 1985 in Natal; UFC record 9-7, pro 24-8, BJJ black belt, beat Figueiredo, released by UFC in 2020.

Just (command runner)

Just is a command runner written in Rust by Casey Rodarmor, first released in 2016, that stores named recipes in a justfile with make-inspired syntax and, unlike make, performs no file change detection.

Just a Band

Just a Band is a Kenyan electronic and art band formed in 2003 at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, best known for the viral 2010 video "Ha-He" and its kung-fu hero Makmende.

Just a Friend

"Just a Friend" is Biz Markie's September 1989 lead single from The Biz Never Sleeps, interpolating Freddie Scott's "(You) Got What I Need"; it peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990 and became a hip-hop singalong standard.

Just A Gent

Just A Gent is the moniker of Australian electronic producer and DJ Jacob Grant from Newcastle, New South Wales, known for future bass, trap, and freeform bass.

Just a Girl

"Just a Girl" is a 1995 song by the American rock band No Doubt, written by Gwen Stefani for Tragic Kingdom and the band's American breakthrough single.

Just A Way (ジャスタウェイ)

Just A Way (ジャスタウェイ), Japanese Thoroughbred foaled 2009 by Heart's Cry; rated 130 as 2014 Longines World's Best Racehorse after winning the Dubai Duty Free by 6¼ lengths; also won Tenno Sho (Autumn) and Yasuda Kinen; now a Shadai stallion.

Just Add Magic (TV series)

Just Add Magic is an Amazon Studios live-action children's series (2015/2016–2019) based on Cindy Callaghan's book, starring Olivia Sanabia, Abby Donnelly, and Aubrey Miller as friends who find a magical cookbook; three seasons, 50 episodes, spin-off Mystery City.

Just Alice

Just Alice (Simplemente Alicia) is a 2025 Colombian Netflix romantic dramedy, 19 episodes of about 40 minutes, in which Alicia secretly marries both a writer and a former priest; created by Marta Betoldi and Esteban del Campo Bagu, starring Verónica Orozco.

Just another Gibbs sampler

Just another Gibbs Sampler (JAGS) is a free, open-source program for analyzing Bayesian hierarchical models using Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation, created by statistician Martyn Plummer.

Just Another Pandora's Box (越光宝盒)

Just Another Pandora's Box (越光宝盒, Once Upon a Chinese Classic) is Jeffrey Lau's 2010 Hong Kong-mainland comedy-fantasy in which Ronald Cheng and Sun Li time-travel to the Battle of Red Cliffs, spoofing A Chinese Odyssey, Red Cliff, and Kung Fu Hustle with about 58 stars.

Just asking questions

Just asking questions (JAQ, "JAQing off") is a rhetorical tactic of implying claims or conspiracy theories through questions to gain plausible deniability; studied by Byford, Roberts, and in 2025 AI chatbot audits.

Just Before I Go

Just Before I Go (2014) is Courteney Cox's feature directorial debut, a dark comedy-drama starring Seann William Scott as Ted Morgan, who plans suicide after his wife leaves him; premiered at Tribeca 2014, released 2015, 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Just Beyond

Just Beyond is an 8-episode supernatural horror-comedy anthology on Disney+, created by Seth Grahame-Smith from R.L. Stine's BOOM! Studios graphic novels, premiering October 13, 2021 with standalone teen tales of witches, aliens, and ghosts.