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 “Ausländer: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile,” Mr. Moritz traces the generational arc of trauma and displacement that has also encompassed his own life experience.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 27, 2026
It offers the ultimate Southern California experience while watching the sun go down.
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
"Nostalgia can be built upon something people didn't even experience personally at the time," notes Um.
From BBC β Sep. 27, 2026
Such softness was a new and wonderful experience for Duane.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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
The fundraising efforts have paid for many of Claire's trips and stays, with the 52-year-old able to enjoy the experiences with her family and friends.
From BBC β Sep. 26, 2026
These near-premium cards are increasingly being aimed at younger Americans eager for travel, dining out and the merry-go-round of other life experiences constantly on display on social media and in pop culture.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 25, 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
Even my own terrible experiences in Castle Dracula seem like a long-forgotten dream.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
It can be the accumulation of everywhere a person has been and everything they have experienced.
From Salon β Sep. 27, 2026
Instead, the Trojans found themselves in an all-too-familiar, all-too-painful position, one they’d experienced many times before during Riley’s tenure.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 27, 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
"I'm an Afrikaner from South Africa myself," Ambassador Meyer said, "and I can say that I've never experienced something of that kind."
From BBC β Sep. 25, 2026
That was why people with Asperger’s experienced them so intensely.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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
"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
And the world is experiencing the strongest El Niño in decades.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 24, 2026
They are the ones who are experiencing the most profound sense of loss.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 24, 2026
Lazlo stood rooted, experiencing the full meaning of useless as a wave of enemies hurtled toward them, moving with uncanny fluidity, flying at them as though launched.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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