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[turm] / tɜrm /






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Appeared in the February 20, 2026, print edition as 'Lagarde Says She Will Finish ECB Term'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

The 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act provided no significant incentive to create new works according to 17 economists, including five Nobel laureates, who submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on the matter.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025

Term life insurance is for a fixed period of time and does not have a cash surrender value.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 9, 2025

In the same year, he appeared in Term of Trial alongside Laurence Olivier.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2025

Then the Easter Term began and every weekday I went to school and everything seemed to have come back to normal again.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl




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