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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He manages more than 300 people at the district attorney’s office and spent decades in the courtroom securing high-profile convictions — advantages that he contends outweigh his lack of civil litigation experience.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 27, 2026
Abdullahi, drawing simultaneously from Ethiopian history, Muslim traditions and her own contemporary experience.
From Salon β Sep. 27, 2026
Speaking on BBC Radio Wales on Wednesday, he added it was a "crazy" experience to win alongside his son and pick up the trophies.
From BBC β Sep. 27, 2026
Having gained some turnaround experience at a small software company his family had acquired, Kaufmann thought he could put Leica back on track.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 27, 2026
It was an experience common to most childhoods, though new to Penelope—that of drifting off to sleep as her parents spoke quietly in another room, trying not to be overheard.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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They were doing something more interesting: building careers around their own identities, experiences and ideas rather than trying to force themselves into the traditional mold of what a chef is supposed to look like.
From Salon β Sep. 27, 2026
Evenepoel has said those experiences have made him physically stronger—in ways that cycling doesn’t—and taught him how to cope with disappointment once he realized he’d never grow into a high-level pro.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 26, 2026
However, she explains that when she is writing her early life experiences resurface.
From BBC β Sep. 24, 2026
But these experiences taught Brown valuable lessons about the risk that comes with investing in single stocks, and she’s since adjusted her portfolio.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 24, 2026
These were the experiences that my gymnastics friends who were already in college were always telling me about on Snapchat and Instagram.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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It can be the accumulation of everywhere a person has been and everything they have experienced.
From Salon β Sep. 27, 2026
But they'd be wise not to forget she is, after all, a talented and experienced actress.
From BBC β Sep. 26, 2026
Scientists have often pointed to it as evidence that Earth experienced a major global disruption of the carbon cycle around 2 billion years ago.
From Science Daily β Sep. 26, 2026
Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr said the economy has experienced a series of shocks over the past year and a half that has contributed to upward price pressures.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 25, 2026
Free hunting was a tactic the Soviet Air Force exploited in 1943 and assigned to experienced fighter pilots of exceptional talent.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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High-scoring winger Kevin Fiala, meanwhile, will miss the first couple of months, at least, after experiencing a setback in his return from a gruesome leg injury sustained at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 27, 2026
For me, experiencing that game and occasion with Stoke City's owners, the Coates family, was really touching too.
From BBC β Sep. 27, 2026
"It can happen anywhere in the world but the Himalayas are experiencing adverse impacts due to climate change and anthropogenic activity," he said.
From Barron's β Sep. 27, 2026
Now, Portland is experiencing a rarely seen housing competition, where higher-end apartments vie for some of the same tenants as income-restricted units.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 25, 2026
After breaking down exactly what I had been feeling, it was she who suggested that perhaps what I was experiencing was anxiety manifesting itself as fatigue.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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