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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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His shirt listed five priorities, in order: Affordability, good experience, safety, peanuts, fan surveys.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

They hope the FDA will appoint more members with compounding experience to the committee and ease enforcement on peptides while it continues the established regulatory process.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

He did not specify how Ukraine could contribute, but cited Kyiv's experience in restoring passage through the Black Sea, which Russia had blocked at the beginning of its invasion.

From Barron's • Apr. 4, 2026

And the experience drove home a truth I have long warned about: Gaining AI-enabled medical clarity means losing some privacy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Neither experience is medically dangerous, though the person in question may find themselves mulling things over for a good while afterward.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood