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 final players who competed in the bubble will exhaust their eligibility after this Final Four, leaving behind a far different tournament experience for all players who follow them.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
For Elena speaking to friends and family about her experience with infertility "felt like a relief".
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
“I was like, you know, startled, and then I realized what it was,” he said, recalling his first experience with the stop-start engine feature that has become the bane of many Americans’ driving existence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Speaking to journalists, including AFP, he cited Kyiv's experience in restoring passage through the Black Sea, which Russia had blocked at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
On the whole, my experience was a blast.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.