experience
Usage
What is another way to say experience?
The verb experience implies being affected by what one meets with: to experience a change of heart, bitter disappointment. Undergo usually refers to the bearing or enduring of something hard, difficult, disagreeable, or dangerous: to undergo severe hardships, an operation.
Example Sentences
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EXPERIENCE: Elected lieutenant governor in 2010, re-elected in 2014.
From Washington Times • Oct. 6, 2018
EXPERIENCE: Lawyer at the St. Louis firm of his father, former U.S.
From Washington Times • Jan. 9, 2017
EXPERIENCE: Former University of Missouri-Columbia associate law professor and senior counsel for Becket Fund for Religious Liberty; former clerk for the Denver-based 10th U.S.
From Washington Times • Jan. 9, 2017
This is a MUST-GO, MUST-NOT-MISS EXPERIENCE, especially outside for lunch on a beautiful day.
From Forbes • May 27, 2014
We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all parts of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac
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"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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