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has been bedeviling
  • present perfect progressive of bedevil (3rd person singular).

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The issue has been bedeviling local officials for decades.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023

Or "a boneless wonder" The labor unrest that has been bedeviling Britain continued to possess the country last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

The outlook is clouded by the other huge deficit that has been bedeviling the economy: the $200 billion federal budget shortfall.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every Dictator bedevils his people with improvements and in Nanking shrill, wasp-waisted Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has been bedeviling Chinese schoolgirls into skirts.

From Time Magazine Archive