challenging experience

collocation in English

meaningsofchallengingandexperience

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challenging
adjective
uk
/ˈtʃæl.ɪn.dʒɪŋ/us
/ˈtʃæl.ɪn.dʒɪŋ/
difficult, in a way that tests your ability ...
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experience
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us
/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofchallengingandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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That must be achallengingexperiencefor nurses who are used to working in hospital wards, but the results are extremely positive.
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I found it achallengingexperienceto meet those people and to hear about some of the things that they had done.
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It was verychallengingexperiencebut it was overwhelming for him to handle everything.
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Multi-player games allow players to oppose one or many human players for a much more realistic andchallengingexperience.
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This was a verychallengingexperiencefor the oil companies, who had suffered enormous financial loss during this period.
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Higher difficulty levels provide a much morechallengingexperienceto the players, with monsters making use of more powerful spells and traps.
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However, it was still recognised as a stirring,challengingexperiencewhich rewards a player for using levelheaded, adaptive tactics.
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However, the voyage to the ocean bottom is still achallengingexperience.
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Backpacking is popular, especially amongst youth who are willing to go through achallengingexperience.
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The advantage of this type of camping is that the canoe provides an easier way to transport everything that is needed when camping; however, paddling can be achallengingexperience.
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This is surely the best way not only to engage our young people in challenging experiences but to form ourselves a useful, very economic, and very worthwhile reserve.
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They involve difficult and challenging experiences that children have encountered or will encounter in their lives and are stories that many children can relate to.
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Csikszentmihalyi identified intrinsic motivation as a powerful trait to possess to optimize and enhance positive experience, feelings, and overall well-being as a result of challenging experiences.
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