wp-admin/includes/taxonomy.php:222Checks whether a post tag with a given name exists.
$tag_nameint|stringmixedfunction tag_exists( $tag_name ) { return term_exists( $tag_name, 'post_tag' );}Introduced in 2.3.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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src/wp-admin/includes/taxonomy.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.