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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He tells me he has had bad experiences coming to the U.S. to read with potential co-stars before, but Palmer immediately put him at ease.
From Los Angeles Times
“Last year’s experience has helped us tremendously,” Morris said.
From Los Angeles Times
Low hiring has historically correlated to a much higher unemployment rate than the U.S. is actually experiencing, about 4.4%.
The Journal spoke to Americans from across the economic spectrum to hear about their experiences:
Seifert hammered back-to-back sixes off Mohammad Nabi - bringing up his half-century in the process - only to fall a couple of deliveries later to the experienced spinner when he holed out to square leg.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
