The phrase "already been deleted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something has been removed or erased prior to the current moment.
Example: "The file you are looking for has already been deleted from the system."
Alternatives: "has been removed" or "has been erased."
Chinese authorities say that more than two million supposedly "unhealthy" images have already been deleted under this campaign, and more than 600 supposedly "unhealthy" Internet forums shut down.
A Twitter account called @CTNewtown that claimed it would donate money to Sandy Hook elementary and the victims for every retweet has already been deleted, BuzzFeed reported.
Results of a Google search on Monday for "Xinjiang rioting" turned up many links that had already been deleted on such well-trafficked Chinese Internet forums as Mop and Tianya.
When they tried to look them up, they'd already been deleted.
Well after The Onion apologized for the statement about Wallis (which had already been deleted), here's what David Carr of The New York Times had to say: "Onion to writers: Tweet incredibly edgy, funny stuff.
These results indicate that the proviral integration occurred in one allele in A61, P173, and P207, and in P207, the other allele might have already been deleted in the parental PC12 cell line.
I've already been deleting old tweets after realizing that border police and potential employers may use what I write publicly against me.
By the time it was announced that we'd purchased a SoHo loft, the divorce papers had already been signed and he'd been deleted from my Instagram.
It's not necessary to use the word "historical" when the event is clearly in the past, so this was doubly wrong and "historic" should have been deleted: "Detectives were already investigating allegations of historic child sexual abuse from more than 30 years ago".
This has been deleted, as she had already trained as a ballet dancer.
The tweets have since been deleted, but the damage had already been done.
