The phrase "actually been published" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing whether something has been officially released or made available to the public, often in the context of books, articles, or research.
Example: "Despite the rumors, the manuscript has actually been published in a reputable journal."
Alternatives: "truly been released" or "indeed been issued".
At that point he exploded, unaware it had actually been published.
Before this report had actually been published, an outbreak of yellow fever occurred in the U.S. garrison at Havana, and a commission was appointed to investigate it.
(The second questionnaire had actually been published in the early eighteen-nineties, during Proust's lifetime but prior to his fame, in the journal La Revue Illustrée).
The Departmental Prize for the Best Essay Accepted for Publication: A second competition is open to all graduate students in our department for essays that have been accepted for publication or have actually been published during the current academic year.
The study's author, Matthew M. Aid, found that eight of the reclassified documents had actually been published as part of the State Department's official history series or made available on the CIA's own database.
When Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act, Hutchinson got it off by contending with brilliant silliness that, since prints were delivered to cinemas in closed canisters, the film had not actually been published.
They have to be preapproved by the state before they can actually be published.
The results of today's voting won't actually be published until mid-January, when the three stages of the election will be finally complete.
She has found these incentives set off a flood of extra papers submitted to those journals, with few actually being published in them.
They'll keep writing it in dribs and drabs over many years, and eventually, to the amazement of them both, the finished thing — a spoofy farce titled "A Nest of Ninnies" — will actually be published).
Despite women and people of colour dominating the open mics and poetry slams that keep the scene alive, it is noticeable that you see more men and white people booked for paying gigs and festivals, and more still actually being published – and I don't accept that white men are simply better writers.
