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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a detained" is not correct in standard written English.
It is typically used incorrectly as "detained" is an adjective that does not require an article like "a" before it.
Example: "The detained individual was taken to the police station for questioning."
Alternatives: "a detainee" or "an arrested person".
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Last August, she was briefly detained after expressing sympathy for a detained democracy advocate, Liu Xianbin.
A detained patient has the right to ask for periodic review of their detention before an independent tribunal.
Russell Brand's autobiography has been banned from Guantanamo Bay, a detained suspect has revealed.
In "Virtue Exam," for instance, a detained woman thinks, "Their voices blister my skin, / Denied.
But habeas corpus enables a court to determine whether a detained person is a rebel.
The case of a detained American pastor seemed to trigger the latest salvo.
It doesn't take nearly that long for a detained person's life to start unraveling.
To monitor: Warnings, from a detained German of Afghan descent, of a terror plot against Western Europe.
"A more common event is the suicide of a detained patient following absconding from an open ward.
Price said the Obama administration criticized Saudi Arabia in the case of a detained blogger, Raif Badawi.
The institute says that having a lawyer increases a detained immigrant's chance of avoiding deportation more than tenfold.
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