Three pairs of congruences concerning sums of central binomial coefficients

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Recently the first author proved a congruence proposed in 2006 by Adamchuk: [Formula: see text] for any prime [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we provide more examples (with proofs) of congruences of the same kind [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is a prime such that [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] is a fraction in [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is a [Formula: see text]-adic integer. The key ingredients are the [Formula: see text]-adic Gamma function [Formula: see text] and a special class of computer-discovered hypergeometric identities.