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# Eloquent: Factories
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Are you sure, the "one" is supposed to be there?


- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [Defining Model Factories](#defining-model-factories)
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### Recycling an Existing Model for Relationships

If you have models that share a common relationship with another model, you may use the `recycle` method to ensure a single instance of the related model is recycled for all of the relationships created by the factory.
For factories that include relationships, you may use the `recycle` method to ensure a single instance of the related model is recycled for all of the relationships created by the factory.
For relationships outside of the factory (like a many-to-many), see [HasAttached()](#pivot-table-attributes).
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Not sure if the first part is needed since we are already on the "Factories" docs page. Furthermore, I'd assume, you would need yet another line break to make Markdown render the second part as a separate paragraph.


For example, imagine you have `Airline`, `Flight`, and `Ticket` models, where the ticket belongs to an airline and a flight, and the flight also belongs to an airline. When creating tickets, you will probably want the same airline for both the ticket and the flight, so you may pass an airline instance to the `recycle` method:

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