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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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 β Sep. 6, 2026
Young renters flocked across the river, seeking out a cheaper, but still New York-like, experience.
From The Wall Street Journal β 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 β 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 β 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
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The weather in the UK may now have cooled, and passengers may soon forget their experiences.
From BBC β 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 β 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 β 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 β Sep. 3, 2026
Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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 β 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 β Sep. 5, 2026
Postpartum psychosis, as Clancy says she experienced, is rare.
From Slate β Sep. 5, 2026
Lafayette’s return in 1824 was a joyful event unlike any that Americans had experienced.
From The Wall Street Journal β 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
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Rescue workers were experiencing "multiple challenges", he said.
From Barron's β Sep. 6, 2026
Indonesia was also experiencing severe, widespread drought during the summer of 2026, much as it did in 2015.
From Science Daily β 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 β 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 β 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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