Today I found myself wanting to use a query similar to SELECT DISTINCT post_id FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE meta_key IN ( 'string_x', 'string_y', 'string_z' ), but where I needed to construct the values for the list of strings from an array of untrusted values (because we never trust inputs, we always look suspiciously on them if they’re going near the DB). Looking through the core code, it seems like there’s currently one place it does this and, while less elegant than the WPDB class prepare method it’s worth me remembering for the future, so…
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