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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BBC Africa Eye is given rare access to their experience.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
"It is the first time in my life that I experience a total closure" of the Holy Sepulchre, Jack Straw, a 52-year-old resident of Jerusalem’s Old City, told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
May was speaking from experience: Turnarounds are his specialty.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
The experience with Arena was a harsh lesson for Authentic, which never had owned a media property before.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026
The film started, but my enthusiasm for the close-up movie experience shifted to Russell.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.