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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"It is a completely different experience," said photographer Hemant Chaturvedi, 58, who has documented what remains during a seven-year odyssey, photographing 1,350 single-screen cinemas across 1,000 towns.
From Barron's β Sep. 27, 2026
They hope for advanced training and better telescopes and eyepieces to enhance visitors' experience.
From BBC β Sep. 26, 2026
McDuffie turned the experience into a positive while developing into one of the NFL’s top players at his position.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 26, 2026
And online estrangement influencers don’t often address a viewer’s particular experience.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 26, 2026
In his experience, that was the tone of voice that made people feel better.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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However, she explains that when she is writing her early life experiences resurface.
From BBC β Sep. 24, 2026
“At a time when consumers are affected by high living costs, we are gradually strengthening our customer offering through attractive and inspiring products, shopping experiences and brands,” Erver said.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 24, 2026
We’re all taking our private experiences and packaging them up for public consumption on Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and Reddit, and I think we gain something from that, or we wouldn’t do it.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 24, 2026
Whether you’re in your 50s, 60s or living in a nursing home, those formative experiences in the schoolyard have a way of coming back to bite you when you least expect it.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 23, 2026
Similarly, the holistic educator places music and the arts in a central position in a child’s education, emphasizing the artistic and aesthetic experiences that only the arts can bring.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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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
Unless you are one of the elite, effervescent few who have never experienced unrequited interest, dating requires a certain level of bravery.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 25, 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
During that voyage, he experienced eighty-nine minutes of weightlessness.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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"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
“For the thousands of people experiencing homelessness or working to rebuild their lives, the systems and funding that connect them to housing and services cannot simply stop,” Graves said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 25, 2026
The UK faced its hottest summer on record this year, with much of the country experiencing drought and repeated heatwaves.
From BBC β Sep. 24, 2026
She said what I was experiencing were “night terrors,” and it did help me to talk about them with her.
From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio
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