Dead
Past
Past adjective - Having been such at some previous time.
Usage example: a past editor of the newspaper
Both words in one sentence
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Jack's dead, the lovely young woman from the previous episode is dead, Rose is as far as he knows stuck in the past, and he's got a weapon that could kill all the Daleks in an instant.
Source: What You Are in the Dark -
In Calamity Trigger, one of his ending paths has him making sure that that name is dead by fighting him as a sign of his complete abandonment to his past.
Source: That Man Is Dead -
Kieran Trevarde of The God Eaters has a dead mother, some degree of rape and child prostitution, as well as drug addiction in his past, and a dead lover on top of all that at the outset of the novel.
Source: Dark and Troubled Past
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