all-but-certain

Updated: May 7, 2025

They had just watched the all-but-certain death of three Terran officers, fifteen Terran airmen, and ten Kragans, but they had all been living in too close companionship with death in the past three days or was it three centuries to be too deeply affected. And they had also watched, at least for a day or so, the removal of the threat that had hung over their heads.

H. Beam Piper - Ullr Uprising