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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Carvana’s business model often appeals to people burned out by the traditional dealership experience or those who have been turned off to new cars entirely.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 29, 2026
"I have slightly more confidence in Andy Burnham because he has personal experience of dementia but how is he going to pay for it?"
From BBC β Jul. 29, 2026
And in my experience, it’s one of the most powerful planning tools a family can ever use.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 29, 2026
The redesign will reshape how visitors experience the campus.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 29, 2026
He had plenty of experience with guilt, though, and that was heavy too.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Happiness is not stable, Mr. Epley tells us; it’s like a leaky tire that needs continual pumping up with positive experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 29, 2026
While she would secure sanctuary, of sorts, by avoiding a return to the African nation, her experiences over the following months were a far cry from the "glamourous" fortnight she had spent at the Olympics.
From BBC β Jul. 29, 2026
Signals from the digestive system may also help determine which food-related experiences become memories.
From Science Daily β Jul. 29, 2026
And nearly 80% said affordable weekend social experiences sound appealing to them.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 29, 2026
However, too many schools have succumbed to funding challenges or embraced a narrow focus on tested subjects, resulting in minimal, if any, arts experiences for the children they serve.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
“In all our years of normal operations, we have never experienced an accident with gas supply.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Jul. 29, 2026
I know it's been a big story in Australia too but I've played grade cricket in Australia and I think I'm pretty experienced in knowing how Australians play their grade cricket.
From BBC β Jul. 29, 2026
He added that ill feeling towards Morecroft in the community had to a degree "spread to his partner" and affected his two children, who had experienced some isolation in the aftermath of the fraud.
From BBC β Jul. 28, 2026
The chain has experienced other problems as well, including remodels that backfired, agitation among activist investors and same-store sales that have wobbled over Masino’s three-year tenure.
From MarketWatch β Jul. 28, 2026
For a second I experienced the intense desire to spit.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
On land, Japan is experiencing a severe heatwave with thousands of people needing hospital treatment over a week.
From Barron's β Jul. 29, 2026
Later events in our lives, like entering a new relationship, experiencing a breakup or dealing with bereavement, can also be influential.
From BBC β Jul. 28, 2026
Some vendors at the Central Avenue Farmers Market are open to bartering or trading with customers experiencing food scarcity.
From Los Angeles Times β Jul. 28, 2026
These themes reflected the conditions people were experiencing in daily life.
From Science Daily β Jul. 27, 2026
Like he’d imagined every possible outcome of this moment— me looking for Traveler and seeing Oliver instead—and we were experiencing the worst of them.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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