lived experience
Example Sentences
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The film portrays Tilly as an AI being with “no real body” and lived experience but with access to everyone else’s, according to Particle 6, the London-based company behind Norwood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
Ultimately, “wealth and income inequality” is technical language that masks the human cost and lived experience of such unfair outcomes.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
The lived experience verifies the theoretical, and the theoretical gives those with lived experience tools to understand their own lives.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
In the same way that learning another language helps us understand our native tongue more deeply, travel forms character through lived experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The silence—driven by stigma and fear of shame—results in a repression of public thought, a collective denial of lived experience.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
