Setting up unqiue approvers in Release Pipeline?

I’m working on a Release Pipeline where I want to require 2 unique approvals before code moves from Beta to Prod. I would like to be able to specify an Active Directory Group in the Approver dropdown, so that the 2 approvers can come from a team of developers.
If I add 2 Approvers in the Approval Step for the Release Pipeline though, it will not allow me to specify the AD Role twice because it’s a duplicate.
Having 2 unique approvals before a prod move seems like a pretty common change management practice, so I’m curious on how others are solving this problem. Thanks!

You are right RM won't allow same approver twice in a stage. So we have made the validation step of the beta to manual and an additional approval step before it the release moves to the prod. And in the prod stage we have made the acceptance step as manual
step. So in total we have 3 approval from the same group before deploying the release in prod.
Regards, Bharath
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