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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“Toby Neugebauer is a fierce, successful businessman with deep energy sector experience who was able to take Fermi from an idea to a multibillion-dollar publicly traded company in less than a year,” a spokeswoman said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
The film highlighted the experience of teen girls in Surkhet, Nepal, and the menstrual stigma they faced.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026
We've been so close to winning something for England, so we can take that leadership on and that experience on to bring it all together.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
In my 30 years’ experience in markets—less discreetly focused on oil markets than some of the others here—that has been a dangerous tactic.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Framing the existing situation, e.g., if a medium or psychic says something is moving, people expect, and are more likely to experience, motion.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Vocabulary lists containing experience
"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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Michelle Obama's Speech at the 2016 DNC
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