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experience

[ik-speer-ee-uhns] / ɪkˈspɪər i əns /




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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Williams was inspired to become a facilitator because of her own experience with perimenopause and chronic pain.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Hours later, another text arrives asking you to rate the experience.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Siblings, for all their relationship complexities, usually have deep experience arguing and making up, which has built trust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

WASP-17b belongs to a class of planets known as 'hot Jupiters', enormous gas giants that orbit close to their host stars and experience intense heating.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Chalk it up to a lack of experience.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

The Wall Street Journal spoke with several New York City homeowners who continue to host Airbnb guests about their experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

These occur when a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole and experiences such extreme gravitational forces that it is torn apart.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

Though experiences like theirs helped inspire these reforms, both Flynn and Varsha are somewhat sceptical of them.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Indonesia experiences wildfires regularly during its annual dry season, but this year's blazes have been exacerbated by a strong cycle of the El Nino weather phenomenon, which tends to bring drought to the country.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

On average, Japan experiences about two thousand earthquakes that are strong enough to be felt every year.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

The forces experienced during launch can cause tiny shifts in sensitive equipment, and conditions in orbit differ significantly from those on Earth.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Like other nations Thailand has experienced first hand the astonishing boom in sales of Chinese electric vehicles.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

But while Coca-Cola’s Fairlife experienced a 78% increase in sales from a year earlier, Pepsi’s Muscle Milk fell 16%, according to Evercore’s analysis of Circana data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

Consulting a tax professional experienced with Americans living overseas about your personal circumstances is advised.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

I draw in a sharp inhale, just as I’m subjected to the worst brain freeze I’ve ever experienced.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Although further research is needed to determine whether such treatments would benefit older adults experiencing cognitive decline, the discovery identifies a potentially valuable therapeutic target.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

The Happy Mums Foundation, which supports women experiencing postpartum mental health challenges, was set up in 2015 and has helped more than 1,000 families across Cumbria.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Back in my apartment, Bolo and Sergey were experiencing their fair share of edge cases.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

State Board of Education President Linda Darling-Hammond also emphasized the need for more progress, while calling attention to notable gains by African American students, Latino students, students from low-income families and students experiencing homelessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

If he also does not have any language for what we are experiencing.

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga


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