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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You have 50 years of experience and knowledge.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 30, 2026
After a slow start as the then-35-year-old with no prior managerial experience found his bearings, Chandler built a talented team which became the envy of non-league football nationwide.
From BBC β Sep. 30, 2026
You have a wealth of knowledge and experience.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 30, 2026
He didn’t waste time shuffling his executive ranks, often by bringing in people with Walmart experience.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 29, 2026
The Incorrigibles had personal experience being covered by bedsheets while pretending to be ghosties, so it was all one big man-in-the-moon costume to them.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
A central part of its work has been to gather testimony from Sami people about their experiences, collating some 300 interviews and written accounts.
From Barron's β Sep. 30, 2026
Side 2 begins with Mr. Young’s “Let It Shine,” a strong piece on boredom and how one can find spiritual moments in everyday experiences.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 29, 2026
While all his experiences up to 2016 were instructive, they couldn’t buffer the shock and disgust of the backlash to his protest.
From Salon β Sep. 29, 2026
The move is part of a government plan to improve rail infrastructure, cut train delays and improve experiences for passengers.
From BBC β Sep. 28, 2026
Papa always said there is no point in your bad experiences except to learn from them.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
"As I appear before you today, it is my belief that the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime," Smith said.
From Barron's β Sep. 29, 2026
"This comes from a child who went through it, who experienced it, whose life it impacted. Do whatever needs to be done to protect them," he said.
From BBC β Sep. 29, 2026
Before making this record, you stopped living with your dad, moved to a place of your own, and experienced a time of profound loneliness.
From Los Angeles Times β Sep. 29, 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 β Sep. 27, 2026
Never before had Americans, in the North or the South, experienced death on this scale.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
"It will help the players themselves with opening up their horizons into different cultures, different countries, experiencing other footballing nations and other styles of football," he says.
From BBC β Sep. 29, 2026
Meteorologists also issued Polo-related warnings of heavy rain and flooding in parts of 10 US states including Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, some of which are experiencing drought.
From Barron's β Sep. 29, 2026
Nvidia is swimming in cash — enough to make history with the announcement of a new $150 billion buyback program — but its customers are experiencing a very different financial reality.
From MarketWatch β Sep. 29, 2026
But where the evidence is thinner, AI could help us examine what we’re experiencing, consider alternative meanings, and decide for ourselves what to carry forward and how to act on it.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 27, 2026
She had no idea what he was experiencing.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
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