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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Thiero, a 22-year-old who tries to make up for his lack of experience with pure motor and athleticism, had a team-high eight rebounds with four points in 13 minutes and 12 seconds.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
This is critical, especially for DFKs, who, I hear, take longer to learn emotional regulation and experience threats as a “tidal wave of feelings inside their own body.”
From Slate • May 10, 2026
More moviegoers are opting for a premium experience, and more filmmakers are investing the effort to provide it.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
It also slows the accumulation of experience, scale and supply chain maturity that drive costs down over time.
From Salon • May 9, 2026
Framing the existing situation, e.g., if a medium or psychic says something is moving, people expect, and are more likely to experience, motion.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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