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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The bigger problem could be that economic data doesn’t capture everything that is shaping people’s experience of the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 9, 2026
Plus inflation measures don’t directly cover some things that people experience as costs, such as home prices or interest rates.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 9, 2026
It says he oversees "everything from route design and guest experience to team culture and the iconic blue fleet".
From BBC β Sep. 8, 2026
For a very different kind of festival experience, head downtown for the Milwaukee Night Market.
From Salon β Sep. 8, 2026
“Then it looks like this is a new experience for everyone.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Lake said investing both time and funds into making live experiences as distinctive as possible for fans is essential in today’s world of EDM.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 8, 2026
Historically, every major U.S. stock index experiences its worst average return in September.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 8, 2026
She has shared her own experiences online in the hopes of helping other women, and said expectant mums often contact her for advice.
From BBC β Sep. 7, 2026
For Schmidt, the ECB is simply "very worried about being behind the curve because of the experiences of 2021-2022".
From Barron's β Sep. 7, 2026
All of these settings are part of a person’s enculturation, or learning one’s culture through experiences, observations, and both formal and informal settings.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
The City of Derry Airport said it had experienced some cancellations and delays.
From BBC β Sep. 8, 2026
“According to PISA, the education systems that experienced the biggest drops in reading also tended to see larger falls in maths and science performance.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 8, 2026
The school, which offers transitional kindergarten through eighth grade, enrolled 421 students last year, and 54 experienced homelessness.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 8, 2026
Before your son breaks ground on this house, consult an experienced estate-planning attorney.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 8, 2026
He could use a man who is experienced with horses.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
To find Clancy guilty, jurors had to be unanimously convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that she intentionally killed her children - Cora, Dawson and Callan - and was not experiencing a psychotic break.
From BBC β Sep. 8, 2026
“Our full training in the summer helps us support kids that are actively experiencing trauma; they may have behavioral issues and we don’t want to lash out back,” eighth-grade teacher Melody Stambaugh said.
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
Onitsuka Tiger, a shoe brand owned by Asics, is experiencing a boom in demand for its retro sneakers.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 7, 2026
Since the Early Renaissance, we have become accustomed to experiencing paintings as windows onto separate illusionistic realities.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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