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Medina Ablikim, Mikhail N. Achasov, Patrik Adlarson, Samer Ahmed, Malte Albrecht, Riccardo Aliberti, Antonio Amoroso, M. R. An, Qi An, Xuhong Bai, Yu Bai, Olga Bakina, Rinaldo Baldini Ferroli, Ilaria Balossino, Yong Ban, Khurelbaatar Begzsuren, Niklaus Berger, Monica Bertani, Diego Bettoni, Fabrizio Bianchi, Johannes Bloms, Alberto Bortone, Igor R. Boyko, Roy A. Briere, H. Cai, Xiao Cai, Alessandro Calcaterra, Guofu Cao, Ning Cao, Serkant Ali Çetin, Jinfan Chang, W. L. Chang, Gueorgui A. Chelkov, D. Y. Chen, G. Chen, Hesheng Chen, M. L. Chen, S. J. Chen, X. R. Chen, Yuanbo Chen, Z. J. Chen, W. S. Cheng, Gianluigi Cibinetto, Fabio Cossio, X. F. Cui, Hongliang Dai, Xinchen Dai, Alaa Dbeyssi, Remco E. de Boer, Dmitri V. Dedovich, Ziyan Deng, Achim Denig, Igor Denysenko, Marco Giovanni Maria Destefanis, Francesca De Mori, Y. Ding, C. Dong, J. Dong, Liaoyuan Dong, Mingyi Dong, X. Dong, Shuxian Du, Y. L. Fan, J. Fang, Shuangshi Fang, Y. 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• Using the data samples collected in the energy range from 3.773 to 4.600 GeV with the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider, we measure the dressed cross sections as a function of center-of-mass energy for 𝑒+⁢𝑒−→𝐾+⁢𝐾−⁢𝜋+⁡𝜋−⁡(𝜋0), 𝐾+⁡𝐾−⁡𝐾+⁡𝐾−⁡(𝜋0), 𝜋+⁡𝜋−⁡𝜋+⁡𝜋−⁡(𝜋0), and 𝑝⁢¯𝑝⁢𝜋+⁡𝜋−⁡(𝜋0). The cross sections for 𝑒+⁢𝑒−→𝐾+⁢𝐾−⁢𝐾+⁢𝐾−⁢𝜋0, 𝑝⁢¯𝑝⁢𝜋+⁡𝜋−⁡(𝜋0) are the first measurements. Cross sections for the other five channels are much more precise than previous results in this energy region. We also search for charmonium and charmonium-like resonances, such as the 𝑌⁡(4230), decaying into the same final states. We find evidence of the 𝜓⁡(4040) decaying to 𝜋+⁢𝜋−⁢𝜋+⁢𝜋−⁢𝜋0 with a statistical significance of 3.6⁢𝜎. Upper limits are provided for other decays since no clear signals are observed.