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Recent years have seen major progress in the study of exotic hadrons—particles that go beyond the traditional quark–antiquark or three-quark picture. This talk will present selected highlights from experiments at the LHC and other facilities worldwide, including new discoveries of tetraquark and pentaquark candidates, along with advances in understanding the properties of such states. Particular attention will be given to heavy-flavor systems, where narrower widths provide a cleaner environment to identify regularities and explore the underlying mechanisms of hadron formation in QCD. The broader implications for hadronic dynamics, threshold effects, and coupled-channel amplitude analyses will be discussed in the context of multiple ISMD topics.