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have been abating

  • present perfect progressive
    of abate.
    abate
    verb (used with object)
    to reduce in amount, degree, intensity, etc.; lessen; diminish: to abate one's enthusiasm.

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But peer victimization, harassment and bullying — despite their ubiquity — have been abating in almost all of the surveys.

From Washington Post