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 experience helped the military refine tactics and procedures that have helped form the foundation of rescue operations since.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
But the show of strength doesn’t provide much guidance on how much blowback the labor market will experience from the Iran war and the subsequent energy shock and stock market slump.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Likewise, the approach will help new factories with limited experience garner more business, he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
But the strangely forgotten U.S. experience with North Korea suggests the alternatives were even riskier.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
It was quite an experience for the Incorrigibles to hear this spellbinding story, especially since it was about them.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
