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"having been read" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that happened in the past, often after a certain event or situation has been completed. For example: "After having been read by hundreds of people, the book was found to contain several factual errors."
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"The newspaper is in good condition having been read by me on the way home.
The suspect, Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, had already been interrogated by other American officials for intelligence-gathering purposes, without having been read his rights.
But this was a misunderstanding caused by the letter's being in English, and then having been read aloud by Arago's housekeeper.
Years later, Steidl's father explained that he had believed the book, having been read through, was now useless; before buying the gift, he'd never been in a bookstore.
(Actually, my husband is currently carrying around "From Dawn to Decadence," but everybody knows that large tomes read by one spouse count as having been read by both).
"I like balanced literacy, I do; I think that it works well, especially for children who are coming into school having been read to every single day," said Katie Grady, principal of Public School 104 in Far Rockaway, Queens.
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Know your application has been read.
African-American poetry has been read sociologically".
"Of course, it should have been read".
And yet it has been read here".
The page proofs had been read by 19 August.
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