Talk:experience

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I can't make head or tail of the supposedly intransitive sense of the verb "experience". The OED does not show any intransitive usages of this verb. -- WikiPedant 14:04, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

I have come across this. I kind of associate it with hippy or new age babblings ("Don't think, just experience, man!"). I could only find this one example, but it's quite a tough one to Google for:

It gives them a chance to think about things, or the opportunity to not think and just experience. [1]

Matt 00:46, 13 July 2007 (UTC).

I found another very similar one through Google Books in "Boost Your Self-Esteem" by John Caunt, 2002, page 82:

Don't think, just experience.

Matt 20:01, 15 July 2007 (UTC).

RFV failed, sense removed. —Ruakh_TALK 22:34, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

put down to experience

chalk something up to experience --Backinstadiums (talk) 16:56, 9 May 2021 (UTC)