The phrase "already detached" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has been separated or removed prior to the current moment or context.
Example: "The label was already detached from the package when it arrived."
Alternatives: "previously removed" or "already separated".
So it was probably a lowball estimate, because some of the ticks had already detached.
If she's not – if she's already detached and disengaged – we won't.
Little black things, flies or maggots, had already detached themselves from the skull and were floating loose.
By 1971, the country was in a bitter war of independence; and Bangladesh, which was already detached from the main body of the country, formed its own state.
Sadly, there is no common law right to pick them (unless they are already detached) but, in practice, taking a kilo home for tea won't get you into trouble.
Two of the three bones associated with mammalian hearing, the malleus and the ectotympanic, had already detached from the lower jaw of the specimen, but they were held in place by an ossified cartilage.
Scotland is already detaching itself from the rest of the UK, as my friend and former Herald political editor Benedict Brogan blogged today.
Elsewhere in iOS, Apple is already detaching itself from Google search: the default search engine on Siri is Microsoft's Bing, and that cannot be changed by the user.
Above all, he was already detaching the image from dialogue, creating images that weren't merely illustrative but highly expressive; his sense of visual storytelling was based on an intensity of rhetorical inflection.
She was still in the shop, still speaking Hokkien and Mandarin, but her life was already detaching from that of our cousins and grandparents, like a slowly shifting tectonic plate breaking off to form its own continent.
But whether it will make much difference to people who are already profoundly detached from the habits and modes of representative democracy is another matter.
