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 taught him to weigh word-of-mouth carefully.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Laviolette’s coaching experience stretches 1,594 games, the ninth-highest career total, with six teams: the Capitals, Flyers, Islanders, Hurricanes and Predators.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
In February 2022, Hugh, then aged 71, felt generally well but started to experience shortness of breath when he was exerting himself.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
His movie is a remarkable piece of autofiction, retelling his first experience with air travel as if it were a love story.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
“I feel like this whole thing was a once-in-a.lifetime thing. I don’t know that we’ll ever experience anything like this again. And I’m happy about that.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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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