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experience

[ik-speer-ee-uhns] / ɪkˈspɪər i əns /




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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"It would have been an experience for the new choristers - these opportunities don't come around that often as well, especially in the Principality," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

She said that Jackson sharing his experience navigating his finances as a Black man made the class relatable.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

If company executives want lessons in leadership, it’s hard to match the experience of retired Gen. David Petraeus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

It also adapted Justin Simien’s indie flick “Dear White People” into an in-your-face comedy revolving around the Black experience at an Ivy League college.

From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2026

He wasn’t going to repeat his experience with the twins ever again.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

“Entering students are less likely to have had ‘real world’ experiences in high school, such as a part-time job,” the report says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

But these experiences taught Brown valuable lessons about the risk that comes with investing in single stocks, and she’s since adjusted her portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Its orbit would have been about four times more eccentric than that of Jupiter's moon Europa, whose icy shell is heavily fractured by the continual gravitational stretching and squeezing it experiences.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

We’re all taking our private experiences and packaging them up for public consumption on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and Reddit, and I think we gain something from that, or we wouldn’t do it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

We have seen that the road to expertness is clear and wide, and that it invites anyone with an open mind and a capacity to absorb new experiences.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Word is that the board will consist of experienced, established journalists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

It provided the example of West Midlands Fire Service, which experienced water pressure issues over several days during the major wildfire in Stourbridge last month.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Not long after, the airplane experienced a complete loss of engine power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

“Based on my knowledge and everything I saw and experienced, East Palestine has always been more polluted and contaminated than what the EPA ever stated,” Dixon said in an interview with the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

It wasn’t a feeling I had experienced that much before, and I liked it.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

They are the ones who are experiencing the most profound sense of loss.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Lee Gannon died at the Royal Victoria Hospital in February 2022 after experiencing breathing problems at his home in Belfast.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Industries and markets tied to commodities produced in areas experiencing forest loss and degradation may also need to address their role.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Gradually, the person experiencing dementia is farther afield from their old self than anyone expects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Riding downtown for the piano recital, I sat in the backseat of the Buick wearing a nice dress and patent leather shoes, my hair in pigtails, experiencing the first cold sweat of my life.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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