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.
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Everyone is expected to pretend night tennis is a fabulous experience.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 9, 2026
Yet, it is hard to argue with an experience like Philipps’, especially when cancer rates among younger adults are rising.
From Slate β Sep. 9, 2026
The company is owned by local business people with long experience in the renewable electricity industry.
From BBC β Sep. 9, 2026
The assignments drew on his deal-making experience at the ATP, WTA, and Pac-12 years and allowed him to work behind the scenes, a shift that has carried into his efforts with tennis players today.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 9, 2026
‘So. Why don’t you see if you can have a chat with her? In my experience, older people really like to be asked about their past.’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
Finally, the Journal’s Kate Clark looks at the venture industry’s newfound love of startups built around human experiences that cannot be easily displaced by artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 8, 2026
There's also a background questionnaire which asks for information about the students, their homes and their school and learning experiences.
From BBC β Sep. 8, 2026
Kutler has said the company is committed to providing more experiences for its audience of “super fans.”
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 8, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s war against the generals who carried out these policies in part reflects his embittering experiences as a junior officer during this period.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 8, 2026
The Scientific Revolution is precisely about new experiences and new sense-perceptions.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
“Curved Air” returns often to the problems experienced by black Americans who have reported mistreatment within the medical system.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 9, 2026
The largely settled conditions experienced at midweek will be short-lived.
From BBC β Sep. 9, 2026
That suggests they experienced little or no major tectonic deformation during the late Miocene.
From Science Daily β Sep. 9, 2026
This season, City teams have been going to the air to take advantage of their experienced, athletic quarterbacks.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 8, 2026
By this time, McKee had turned the more than 250 volunteer Marauders into what was probably the most experienced archaeological diving team in the world.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
According to the UN, more than 19.5 million people are also experiencing "crisis levels" of food insecurity and more than five million are facing "emergency levels of hunger".
From BBC β Sep. 8, 2026
“Our greatest impact is by investing in today’s students experiencing homelessness,” said Jennifer Friend, CEO of Project Hope Alliance, one of Scholarship Prep’s community partners.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 8, 2026
“It’s difficult to appreciate the scale, energy, and atmosphere of the property without experiencing it in person,” he noted.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 8, 2026
Doctors talk about la belle indifférence, a state of reality-denying serenity that some patients enter while experiencing serious medical symptoms.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 7, 2026
Like he’d imagined every possible outcome of this moment— me looking for Traveler and seeing Oliver instead—and we were experiencing the worst of them.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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