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The phrase "actually been detained" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's current status regarding being held or confined, often in a legal or law enforcement context.
Example: "The suspect has actually been detained by the authorities for questioning."
Alternatives: "truly been apprehended" or "indeed been held."
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No policeman has actually been detained.
The office of Mexico's attorney general later said that Ms. Cassez had actually been detained a day earlier.
Hermant, who has actually been detained since January on arms trafficking charges, is suspected of supplying Coulibaly with some of the guns used during the siege.
Though an independent report found that Connor's death was preventable and Slade House was subsequently shut down after failing an inspection, Sara says that at the pre-inquest review the Trust's lawyers still argued that Connor died of natural causes and that he had not actually been detained in the unit, so a jury would be unnecessary.
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DARK-SUITED WOMAN Uh, actually … He's been detained.
He also said imprisoned protesters who were shown by state television being freed last month as part of an amnesty were actually people who had been detained at random four or five days earlier.
Dozens have been detained.
"He has been detained".
Hundreds of Palestinians have been detained.
All four suspects have been detained.
Many demonstrators have been detained.
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