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experience

[ik-speer-ee-uhns] / ɪkˈspɪər i əns /




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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Turns out, Thollander was right: This experience had nothing to do with haste.

From Los Angeles Times

The experience deepened Hansen’s gratitude for the gym they frequent in Los Angeles, Everybody Gym.

From Los Angeles Times

The dog was experiencing joint pain in his back two legs.

From Los Angeles Times

Becker, a former Justice Department official, said the experience offered an uncomfortable lesson: Those internal guardrails existed because individuals chose to enforce them — and there is less reason to assume they would be there again.

From Salon

A freelance journalist, she doesn’t believe the technology can replicate her 20 years of professional experience.

From The Wall Street Journal