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experience

[ik-speer-ee-uhns] / ɪkˈspɪər i əns /




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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Biden writes that his experience over five decades in politics “outweighed the obvious weaknesses of my age—my thinner voice, my greater tendency to misstate places and names, my halting gait.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

The Liberal Democrats want the government to introduce a 100-hour work experience guarantee and a careers coach for every young person.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

His background in engineering and experience launching a computational biology startup had given him a strong foundation for that work.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026

After all, I got a column—and you get to learn from my experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

Chalk it up to a lack of experience.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Since sharing her story on Facebook, Kay said she had received messages from about 100 people describing their own experiences with weight-loss injections.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Only now, she takes center stage at her most unfiltered, turning her own experiences into a high-energy hour that is relentlessly entertaining and at times hilariously uncomfortable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Another important discovery emerged when the team examined the relationship between brain activity and the participant's visual experiences.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026

But his interest begins with the material elements of a book—its layout and print, the density of text on its pages—and how these features shape our reading experiences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

If this journal be true—and judging by one’s own wonderful experiences, it must be—he is also a man of great nerve.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

West Sussex - like most of the country - experienced an unprecedented summer marked by record-breaking heatwaves and severe drought.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

"We would encourage anyone who has experienced criminal or professional misconduct to report their concerns," it added.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Statins are widely prescribed to lower cholesterol and reduce these risks, including in people who have never experienced a cardiovascular event.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

She experienced Apple’s shift from founder-CEO Steve Jobs to successor Tim Cook, and brought that perspective to bear on Nvidia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

Major Henry Rathbone, seated in the box just feet away from the president, was an experienced army officer, familiar with the sounds of gunshots.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

"We are waiting to see what the outcome will be on that day, the judgement for everything we have been experiencing for generations," said a 25-year-old Yangon-based Rohingya activist who requested anonymity for security reasons.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026

"We've determined a portion of infrastructure is experiencing elevated load across multiple regions, which is likely contributing to the connectivity errors," the company wrote on X.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

Singapore's courts also said they were "experiencing issues with incoming and outgoing emails", urging people to contact them by telephone for urgent matters.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

Zelensky said on Thursday that Ukrainian forces are experiencing disruptions to their military-grade Starlink satellite internet service, provided by Elon Musk’s SpaceX in coordination with the Pentagon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

It buzzed a little bit, and I had a brief vision of it experiencing a non-passive failure and exploding into a billowing cloud of smoke and motor particles, but then it got up to speed.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram


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