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experience

[ik-speer-ee-uhns] / ΙͺkˈspΙͺΙ™r i Ι™ns /




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.


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Well, they have an energetic new special teams coach in Bubba Ventrone, a placekicker with Rams experience in Harrison Mevis, a veteran punter in Ethan Evans and...

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Young renters flocked across the river, seeking out a cheaper, but still New York-like, experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

"Engagement of patients and family/caregivers in the multidisciplinary care process also helps to ensure patients' priorities are met, improve their experience and promote patient-centered care."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

And you owe it to yourself to indulge at some point this NFL season in the Derwin James experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

She clearly has experience dealing with the dirty looks and hateful sneers of girls like Skye and Madi.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

The weather in the UK may now have cooled, and passengers may soon forget their experiences.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Venture capitalists are pivoting to physical experiences as they seek businesses insulated from the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The show explores the meaning of “sacred” as Marquez documents her most private places and experiences, and asks viewers to consider what they hold sacred.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

At an abortion awareness rally in 1969 where women were sharing their experiences of having abortions, Steinem was encouraged to share her own story about terminating a pregnancy.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

California is home to the third-most data centers of any state, though it has experienced a relatively smaller new boom because of its high electrical prices and other factors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

Following the video surfacing, Galliano apologized, went to rehab, and, over the last few years, experienced a brand resurgence that some would call a whitewashing.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Postpartum psychosis, as Clancy says she experienced, is rare.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

Lafayette’s return in 1824 was a joyful event unlike any that Americans had experienced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“I never experienced such a strong earthquake in my life,” a city official from Sendai told a reporter in disbelief that night.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

Rescue workers were experiencing "multiple challenges", he said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Indonesia was also experiencing severe, widespread drought during the summer of 2026, much as it did in 2015.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

And then if you have more than one child, you may well be managing that defiant toddler while simultaneously experiencing the hormone crash, the sleeplessness, the bobble-headed feeling of the newborn period all over again.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

According to testimony at trial, she began experiencing anxiety about returning to work as a labor and delivery nurse after the birth of her youngest child in May 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

For almost a decade, I’d been privileged to move through it, experiencing its bracing contradictions and bitter conflicts, its pain and persistent idealism, and above all else its resilience.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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