I would like to get a term, knowing only part of its slug. The way my slugs are set up, make it so the category name appears before a language code, and I sometimes need to get the term just from the category name and language code concatenated together, but if that exact term doesn't exist, I don't get anything from get\_term\_by.

That would be okay, except, some of my terms are in multiple languages, and when I know the category and the language, say it's apple in french and english, and I need to find that term from just knowing that I am dealing with apple, and I'm in english.

More concrete example:

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> term name: apple\_en\_fr
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> I want to search for apple\_en or apple\_fr and get that term.
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How could one go about getting a fuzzy match, like that?