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The phrase "already been selected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that a choice or decision has been made prior to the current moment or context.
Example: "The candidates for the position have already been selected, and we will notify them next week."
Alternatives: "previously chosen" or "already chosen".
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New department heads have already been selected.
A new rabbi, Dov Goldberg, has already been selected.
Sites have already been selected at East 62nd, 75th and 90th Streets.
The roster had already been selected and wiped out twice because of appeals.
He is looking to go to Cambridge; he has already been selected as 'Gifted and Talented'.
Unlike most sports, the bulk of the Olympic team has already been selected.
Marlins third baseman Mike Lowell had already been selected as an All-Star reserve.
(The school is public, but its classes had already been selected by application and lottery).
Out of these new civil actions, five have already been selected to be "lead cases".
Aptamers have already been selected against a number of Abs for various applications.
Russian Valery Spiridonov has already been selected as the recipient of the new body.
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