How to check if a post meta key/value pair already exists for a specific post

According to the docs of get_post_meta(), you could try

N.B. If you’re going for the first option, you could use the object operator -> to get the meta value from the post, and circumvent having to call get_post_meta() yourself. View it on Trac here.

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