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<p>To fetch an instantiated factory from the running application you can call the
<a href="https://api.emberjs.com/ember/3.16/classes/ApplicationInstance/methods/lookup?anchor=lookup"><code>lookup</code></a> method on an application instance. This method takes a string
to identify a factory and returns the appropriate object.</p>
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