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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She recently attended a court hearing in New York to determine whether he can countersue for defamation after she spoke about her experience last year.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
“Alzheimer’s is the progressive failure and loss of synapses and nerve cells, which patients experience as failing memory, failing thinking and lost independence,” Vissel tells MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
Rügen is an example of more tourists looking for an "authentic experience" of a country, away from the classic cities, she adds.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026
Then, the summer before her 60th birthday, she participated in an intensive learning experience in Jewish prayer and Torah in Jerusalem and was set off on the path to the clergy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Although she had little experience of city life, she was quite sure that three children baying and barking at full throttle would not be a welcome addition to the neighborhood.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing experience
"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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