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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In Compton, the approach is taking a different shape, one formed by Mr. Wash’s own experience of incarceration and reentry.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026
Yet it would stand to reason, for example, that McDonald’s, which has thousands of restaurants directly in countries under fire and thousands more in places starting to experience fuel shortages, would be affected.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
"It's an exciting step toward understanding how conscious experience and physical health are intertwined, and how we might harness that connection to promote well-being in new ways."
From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026
Maguire and his family are settled in the north-west, United valued the 33-year-old's experience, a factor that has taken on more importance this summer given the impending exit of Casemiro.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
The pools of mortgage loans were just about to experience their first losses, and the moment they did, Hubler would be paid in full.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.