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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"You never see just a realistic, down-to-earth 'this is what trans people experience'," he says.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025
“Hyun-ju is meant to be a ‘let’s teach cis folks about the trans experience’ kind of character,” Earl told me over a lengthy chat, a few days after the “Squid Game 2” binge drop.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024
And I remember Terry saying, "Frankly, given the choice between a 'real Hollywood experience' and functional plumbing, I would have gone for the plumbing."
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2019
“Most people, when they hear the word ‘internship’ think ‘work experience’, but what they should really think is: ‘starter job’,” Reeves said.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2018
Plutarch had claimed ‘palpable experience’ of the disempowering effect of garlic upon the magnet.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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