Dead
Old
Old adjective - Having been such at some previous time.
Usage example: I ran into my old fourth-grade teacher yesterday
Both words in one sentence
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Well, apart from the culture shock and finding out that everyone you loved is either old or dead.
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Implied for the people the Volunteers leave behind in Queen's song '39: the travellers are "older but a year" due to the effects of Time Dilation, but when they return, the people left behind are old or dead and have left their descendents behind.
Source: The Slow Path - Because when HE was a child and young man everybody abused HIM and nobody respected HIM or acknowledged HIS genius, and HE considers the whole humanity must pay for it -even though most of the people tormented him when he was a child would be old or dead when the series began- and kneel before HIM.
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