lived experience
Example Sentences
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The politics of identity for them is a lived experience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Ultimately, “wealth and income inequality” is technical language that masks the human cost and lived experience of such unfair outcomes.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
"People with lived experience can really tell you what we need to do."
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
The lived experience verifies the theoretical, and the theoretical gives those with lived experience tools to understand their own lives.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
The silence—driven by stigma and fear of shame—results in a repression of public thought, a collective denial of lived experience.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
