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Here’s a Drupal 8/9/+ answer, designed as a static PHP class method:

You can add this method in any class and can call using self operator.

Example: self::getTidByName(“term-name”, “vocabulary machine name”);

This will return term id if given term name matches, else it will return 0 if not matched.

 /**
   * Utility: find term by name and vid.
   *
   * @param string $name
   *   Term name.
   * @param string $vid
   *   Term vid.
   *
   * @return int
   *   Term id, or 0 if none.
   */
  public static function getTidByName($name = NULL, $vid = NULL) {
    if (empty($name) || empty($vid)) {
      return 0;
    }
    $properties = [
      'name' => $name,
      'vid' => $vid,
    ];
    $terms = \Drupal::service('entity_type.manager')->getStorage('taxonomy_term')->loadByProperties($properties);
    $term = reset($terms);
    return !empty($term) ? $term->id() : 0;
  }

With this function, you can create new term if this functions returns 0, Like below

$term =Term::create([ 'name' =>$term_name, 'vid' => $vid, ])->save();

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Going forward i am going to share issues and tips faced in my Drupal 8 projects. Hope it might be helpful to someone who might have face same type of issue in their project.