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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It wants steep increases to the automatic raises teachers already receive based on years of experience and additional education credits.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
“They don’t experience the reality we do,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
"It's an exciting step toward understanding how conscious experience and physical health are intertwined, and how we might harness that connection to promote well-being in new ways."
From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026
A woman has been reunited with her cat nearly five years after he went missing - an experience she has described as a "miracle".
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
Hadn’t he been promoting the diversity of the modern Native experience through his content for the better part of a year now?
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.