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has been depriving
  • present perfect progressive of deprive (3rd person singular).

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"This is the first, full Steven Spielberg musical, and it seems he has been depriving himself and us all," wrote Empire's Helen O-Hara.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2021

She has been depriving herself of half her proper food every day during this famine.

From Romola by Eliot, George

This is a vexation to me, because it has been depriving you, in the very prime of your life, of pleasures which it was your duty to procure.

From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John