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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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He manages more than 300 people at the district attorney’s office and spent decades in the courtroom securing high-profile convictions — advantages that he contends outweigh his lack of civil litigation experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

Abdullahi, drawing simultaneously from Ethiopian history, Muslim traditions and her own contemporary experience.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Burnham has made reforming social care one of his flagship policies and has spoken of the experience of his father Roy, who had Alzheimer's and died earlier this month.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Having gained some turnaround experience at a small software company his family had acquired, Kaufmann thought he could put Leica back on track.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

They both knew how bad it was from personal experience.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

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 ● Sep. 27, 2026

However, she explains that when she is writing her early life experiences resurface.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 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 ● Sep. 24, 2026

He said real-world experiences like casino visits or shows remain more insulated from AI, for now.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Even though they were not Mexican and spoke only English, they had many of the same experiences as my family.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

It can be the accumulation of everywhere a person has been and everything they have experienced.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

According to Judge Diamond’s opinion, the turmoil began when Matthew Stiegler, a district attorney’s office supervisor, assigned the Johnson case to Jaclyn Mason, an experienced lawyer who had been a prosecutor for just four months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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 ● Sep. 27, 2026

"I have experienced it at Bayern Munich for example, you don't fear anyone," the 33-year-old said.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Later that year, Marina teamed up with another daring and experienced female pilot, Valentina Grizodubova.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

"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 ● Sep. 27, 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 ● Sep. 25, 2026

They are the ones who are experiencing the most profound sense of loss.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

The family of a mother and three children who died in a house fire have said they are experiencing an "unimaginable" loss.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

I could tell she thought we were experiencing the kind of thing she would probably call a breakthrough.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin




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