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"experience first hand" is correct and can be used in written English
It is usually used to refer to a firsthand experience, meaning an experience that happened directly to the person speaking/writing, rather than one that they merely heard about or read about. For example: "I'm so excited to be going to the concert this weekend, so I can experience the music first hand!"
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He was about to experience first hand just how much.
Which of the projects featured in the article would you like to experience first hand?
Allowing them to experience first hand the operational challenges relating to waste could help foster more sustainable design.
She said: "Obama's visit gives an excellent opportunity … to experience first hand a city unencumbered by cars".
And as it happens, the other medium to which Islam made an audaciously original contribution, architecture, is also difficult for Westerners to experience first hand.
"However," writes Handford, "it was usually short term, a chance to experience first hand what it was like to work as a journalist".
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Many on the staff understand the refugee experience first-hand.
Artists yearn to exhibit in real galleries; collectors want to experience first-hand a work's scale and texture.
These gloomy warnings are becoming grimly regular fodder for Pacific islanders to digest and, increasingly, experience first-hand.
Try the delicious Thörle Spätburgunder 2013 (£15, Caviste again; ), from Rheinhessen, to experience first-hand just how impressive it is.
You need to experience first-hand the body language that makes the verbal language spin and the voices that seem to get high off their own inflections.
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