lived experience

Example Sentences

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For Monterroso Mejia, becoming Valentina didn’t necessarily entail playing a character, but leaning on her lived experience as the child of immigrants existing in a bilingual place like Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 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

In the same way that learning another language helps us understand our native tongue more deeply, travel forms character through lived experience.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

"I was not observing from a distance. I was inside the situation, feeling the same hunger, fear, and emotional weight. The image came from that direct and lived experience."

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 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