The phrase "asked just because" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a question was posed without a specific reason or purpose, often implying a casual or non-serious tone.
Example: "She asked just because she was curious about my weekend plans."
Alternatives: "asked simply because" or "inquired just for the sake of it".
Why dismiss the defence secretary, he asks, just because "two or three" people disagree with him?In this section Where to on trade?
You might ask, "Just because you pay us and we deliver doesn't mean we're successful.
But beyond that, big data challenges us to ask, "just because we can, should we?" The question applies to everything from using customer data to predict sensitive health conditions to whether parole boards should be required to rely on statistical models to predict recidivism.
If you needed $5 for lunch, he'd be the guy you'd ask just because he was so happy to help.
The dude in the song pressures a woman into staying at his house and feeds her booze (and possibly roofies—"Say, what's in this drink?" the woman in the song asks) just because it's supposedly cold outside.
While we can continue to fantasize about developing new water supplies by building larger and larger engineering projects to move water longer and longer distances, destroying ever more distant ecosystems in the name of satisfying uncontrolled and unquestioned sprawl and development in arid regions, perhaps it is time to ask: Just because we can, should we?
If I ask one of my daughters, will she think I asked her just because she's a girl?
Thus, the question we need to ask is: Just because you can, should you?
Soon the singer Charlie Starr arrives with real dissent: "In the tiny town where I come from/You grew up doing what your daddy does/You don't ask questions, you do it just because".
Mr. Nocera asks whether, just because Mr. Glass fabricated dozens of articles for The New Republic and other publications over several years, "the rest of his life [should] also be destroyed".
