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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.


Example Sentences

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Slaymaker said while "extreme", a lockbox for mobile phones would help improve the cinema experience.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

“While women are more likely to build informal caregiving experience earlier in life through caregiving for children, men may enter eldercare with less experience managing long-term caregiving stress.”

From MarketWatch • May 21, 2026

In terms of Tonkin’s potential successor, Macquarie notes that both Northern Star’s chief financial officer and chief operating officer have significant experience and have been with the miner for an extended period of time.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

The Italian divers included a marine biology professor with many years of experience, her daughter, two young researchers, and their Maldives-based guide.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Their goal was to experience the joy and empowerment that education creates and to participate fully in American society.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson




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