near-death experience

[ neer-dethik-speer-ee-uhns ]

/ ˈnɪərˈdɛθ ɪkˌspɪər i əns /

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a sensation or vision, as of the afterlife, reported by a person who has come close to death. Abbreviation: nde, NDE

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How to use near-death experience in a sentence

In a new memoir, Things I Learned from Falling, Nelson gives readers an intimate look at the near-death experience and how it reshaped her life.
“I Was Going to Die in the Desert”|Maura Fox|June 25, 2021|Outside Online
“Maybe we’ll even go on a hike,” said Compean, adding that despite his near-death experience, he intends to revisit Angeles National Forest, his favorite hiking destination.
A hiker was lost and desperate. A stranger with an unusual hobby saved him.|Sydney Page|April 22, 2021|Washington Post
I don’t blame those burgers for my near-death experience, but they show just how little regard I had for my health.
Food was my life — until a heart attack at 41 almost killed me|Rob Petrone|March 3, 2021|Washington Post
With around 150,000 viewers watching live, Ocasio-Cortez for the first time recounted in detail what she had earlier described as a near-death experience during the attempted insurrection.
Ocasio-Cortez reveals she’s a sexual assault survivor, recounts ‘trauma’ of Capitol riot: ‘I thought everything was over’|Jaclyn Peiser|February 2, 2021|Washington Post

In the movie version of a global near-death experience, a teenage hacker messing around with an artificial intelligence program that just happened to control the American nuclear missile force unleashes chaos.
WarGames for real: How one 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII|Sean Gallagher|November 29, 2020|Ars Technica
Even I, despite my near-death experience, esteem nurse practitioners highly.
Nurse Practitioners Playing Doctor More Often|Daniela Drake|May 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Clearly, this is not the near-death experience we typically hear about.
Is Hell Real?|David Sessions|February 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST

British Dictionary definitions for near-death experience

near-death experience

noun

an experience, instances of which have been widely reported, in which a person near death is apparently outside his body and aware of it and the attendant circumstances as separate from himAbbreviation: NDE

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