I think your first partial code be this partial code:
$wpdb->prepare( "SELECT * ... from ... WHERE ( post_title LIKE '%%%s%%' or post_content LIKE '%%%s%%' )..., $string, $string );
You have to have to pass the same number of arguments into the query as you specify (with %s) in it.
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