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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To Lee, wealth these days is “about building a comfortable, perfect life, where people live healthy and experience good things and good food with the people you love.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
A generation of experience informs regional groups that an attack on the U.S. will only invite an overwhelming American reaction, and so it seems they have been mostly disinterested in poking the bear.
From Slate • Apr. 21, 2026
Many of the adverts BBC News NI has seen, encourage the buyers to "rate" their experience out of five stars.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
She also said her message of competency and experience wasn’t resonating among voters who were seeking a fiery foil to President Trump, not “Boring Betty,” as she dubbed herself.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
Mama Woof seemed dazed by the experience, but thanks to the nourishing borscht and some tasty sandwich meats offered by the children, she was soon quite herself again.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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