The phrase "articulated before" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that has been expressed or stated previously in a discussion or document.
Example: "The concerns regarding the project's timeline were articulated before the meeting began."
Alternatives: "expressed earlier" or "stated previously".
His diagnosis has been articulated before, by environmental and agroecology thinkers such as Raj Patel, Tim Lang and George Monbiot.
I'm often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that's never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook's "Somebody's Baby" or Nina Berberova's "The Tattered Cloak".
The idea is both paranoid and dumb, for reasons we've articulated before, and lacks any evidence much more robust than the evidence you might provide a kid for the existence of Santa.
This study has presented a thorough mechanistic description on the molecular characteristics of major alkaloids (nicotine, β-nicotyrine, and 3,5-dimethyl-1-phenylpyrazole) never articulated before in literature.
What it is, really, is the history of an idea — an idea that Williams articulated before anyone else — about the critical importance of separating church from state.
It taps the intellect of Stanford research leaders, most of whom are already well-funded, on research questions that have not been articulated before.
"Certainly there were moments of satisfaction where I felt like: 'Ah, that's what that is; that's what I've been feeling: the words I've put in Bartle's mouth, that I hadn't been able to articulate before.'" Did the war, then, make him a writer, or simply give him something to write about?
Something I was unable to verbalize or articulate before I arrived in Pamplona.
The one thing we can articulate before we've had our morning coffee is that these battling breakfast wars are a big waste of time.
Upshaw's early position on random testing conducted year-round was articulated months before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and amounted to what we might describe today as Fehr and loathing.
Not only does the new approach have little in common with the "freedom agenda" of George W. Bush, but it is also a scaling back of the more expansive American role that Mr. Obama himself articulated two years ago, before the Arab Spring mutated into sectarian violence, extremism and brutal repression.
