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.
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But they are all Borthwick regulars with priceless Test match experience.
From BBC β Oct. 26, 2026
In my experience, most people in their 40s have never sat down and figured this out, which means they’re saving toward a target they’ve never defined.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 26, 2026
Nadeau, who lives in Belleville, Ill., wound up buying the hard drive at the lower price his wife found using her phone, but he was alarmed by the experience.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 26, 2026
In a post-election analysis, Serbian professor Dejan Pavlovic wrote on X on Monday that the students’ lack of political experience or involvement in any dubious business dealings had “become their greatest strategic advantage.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 26, 2026
The creature is gnawing on some parmesan crust with its eyes squeezed shut, like eating the scraps is an experience to be savored with everything it has.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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Yet despite all those new experiences, the core vision for this album remained unchanged.
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 26, 2026
Between my own experiences over 70 years and those of others, including you, it is clear that history is a great teacher.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 26, 2026
Lyris, who is now married with children and generally quite happy, experiences vivid hallucinations of “ghost fire.”
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 26, 2026
When study participants were asked to report on their experiences confronting other people, nearly 72% had heard a denial, attack, and reversal of victim and offender.
From Salon β Oct. 26, 2026
We’re also going to create a club, specifically to create a safe space for Black students and other students of color to share experiences.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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As experienced as these players are, that became an endurance test for them with this album, as in the case of its lead single “Máquina.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 26, 2026
At the time of their scans, experienced radiologists had found no evidence of pancreatic cancer.
From Science Daily β Oct. 26, 2026
But the prime minister suggested the type of migration experienced during the years of EU membership was "different" from the challenges faced now.
From BBC β Oct. 25, 2026
The second kind is a transactional friendship, like the one a reader experienced at his golf club with an adviser who was always scouting for clients.
From MarketWatch β Oct. 25, 2026
During that voyage, he experienced eighty-nine minutes of weightlessness.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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“I would send photos of what I was experiencing, like human feces at my front door, encampments at the back door … all those emails just fell on deaf ears.”
From Los Angeles Times β Oct. 26, 2026
Cricket, long regarded in the U.K. as the game of the upper classes, is experiencing a revival—without some of its famously haughty traditions.
From The Wall Street Journal β Oct. 25, 2026
"Families who are experiencing that kind of poverty are likely to be going without many of the basics."
From BBC β Oct. 24, 2026
It’s disarming and occasionally exhausting, but that’s the point: If such repetitive heaviness is difficult for the viewer, imagine how it is for the person experiencing it.
From Salon β Oct. 23, 2026
I realized that for most of them, this was the first time they were experiencing the absolute magic of seeing themselves transformed by a story.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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