wordpress prepare error

Use double percent sign like so: %%special-purpose%%.

Or you could also use a placeholder, i.e. LIKE %s and then set the 6th parameter for $wpdb->prepare() to %special-purpose%, i.e.

$wpdb->prepare( "your SQL query", $earth_radius, $lat, $lng, $lat, '%special-purpose%' )

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