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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Now, some areas in the Santa Monica Mountains experience fire every five to eight years — too frequent for native vegetation to recover.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Then she completed the wholesale shakeup that saw yet another TV vet, 60 Minutes executive producer Tanya Simon, replaced with Nick Bilton, a frequently criticized tech writer with zero experience in broadcast news.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026
As Miller once wrote, “Precisely because we experience limits—vulnerability, suffering and failure—we can recognize the inviolable dignity of every person, both our own and that of others.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
But he does believe it will be a good experience for many.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
The whole experience recalled to Dad the first time an automobile had turned up in this district.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing experience
"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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