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It's by design, You CAN'T use a lookup column that read from the same list in SharePoint Designer Workflow!
In your case, I would suggest doing the following:
Creating a new list for Previously Approved Request List.
In the Requests list, create a lookup field Previously Approved Request that refers to the newly created list instead of referring back to the ...
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