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experience

noun as in happening, occurrence

verb as in to have experience of

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Example Sentences

When you go to a restaurant, you are as much responsible for having a good experience as the restaurant is for providing it.

From Eater

Gibbs has little experience in federal personnel matters, having worked mainly in the software industry before going to HUD, where he oversees a community planning and development office.

Warner Bros’ sci-fi thriller was viewed as the main litmus test for whether audiences were ready to embrace the theatrical experience again, after nearly six months of shuttered theaters due to the pandemic.

From Fortune

I think there’s a narrative that we can learn on the job, and I do believe a lot of people can, and have, but felt that learning from other people’s experiences and from experts made more sense to me.

At a time when people are not together, create a shared experience where people can come together.

From Digiday

Should capability delivery experience additional changes, this estimate will be revised appropriately.

Women are more likely to recover sooner from birth and less likely to experience post-partum depression.

And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”

He flew with Captain Irianto, 53, who had 20,000 hours experience, more than 6,000 hours on the A320.

The copilot on Flight 8501 was Remi Emmanuel Piesel, 46, who despite his age had just 2,275 hours of flying experience.

The experience of the Jesuit fathers at Port Royal is related at length, from their own point of view.

With Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.

I cannot see in science, nor in experience, nor in history any signs of such a God, nor of such intervention.

Knowing by experience that he would soon be up to it, he used his pole with all his might, hoping to steer clear of it.

The real experience has a magnetism of its own and will win above mere technicality whenever it has the opportunity.

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When To Use

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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On this page you'll find 126 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to experience, such as: acquaintance, background, exposure, familiarity, intimacy, and involvement.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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