term life insurance

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life insurance for which premiums are paid over a limited time and that covers a specific term, the face value payable only if death occurs within that term.

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But on Thursday Boxer triggered a Golden State political earthquake, announcing that she would not seek a fifth term in 2016.
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His life as a man is built around health insurance and tax services.
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Term limits could be a prescription to speed change along.
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It was also an attack on our freedom of expression and way of life.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

I always wanted my life to be that way, and it became that way.
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So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.
The Bondboy|George W. (George Washington) Ogden
Now, it immediately occurred to Davy that he had never in his whole life had all the plums he wanted at any one time.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.
Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing|Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman
We shall recover again some or all of the steadfastness and dignity of the old religious life.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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