Use the do_shortcode() function
$HtmlOutput .= do_shortcode( '[some_shortcode something="FC3"]' );
//You can also use:
echo do_shortcode( '[some_shortcode something="FC3"]' );Assigning the output of do_shortcode() to a string and returning from the function with it didn’t work in our test, but echo did
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