| 100% | COPE | 4 | Get through a rough patch |
| 100% | COPES | 5 | Gets through a rough patch |
| 58% | COPES | 5 | Successfully handles a rough patch |
| 56% | TURNEDACORNER | 13 | Got through a crisis |
| 56% | RIDINGOUT | 9 | Enduring, as a rough patch |
| 56% | READS | 5 | Gets through a James Patterson |
| 56% | READS | 5 | Gets through a book, say |
| 56% | STABS | 5 | Gets through a sticking point? |
| 55% | FALLONHARDTIMES | 15 | Have a rough patch |
| 54% | SPEEDREAD | 9 | Get through a book super quickly: Hyph. |
| 54% | SKIDS | 5 | Hits a rough patch, perhaps |
| 54% | SPEEDREADS | 10 | Gets through a book quickly: 2 wds. |
| 53% | COPE | 4 | Make do during a rough patch |
| 53% | BETATESTED | 10 | Worked on a rough patch, perhaps? |
| 53% | HASSLE | 6 | Getting through a busy toll plaza, e.g. |
| 52% | OSMOSIS | 7 | One way to get through a wall |
| 52% | STOOP | 5 | Bend to get through a doorway, say |
| 52% | PENETRATED | 10 | Got through, as a barrier |
| 51% | SPEEDREADS | 10 | Gets through quickly, in a way |
| 50% | DERIVES | 7 | Gets through deduction, as a math formula |
| 49% | AVIAN | 5 | Article gets through like a bird |
| 47% | UBERED | 6 | Got a ride through an app |
| 47% | UBERS | 5 | Gets a ride through an app |
| 47% | SKIMREAD | 8 | Quickly flick through a book to get the gist |
| 46% | UBERS | 5 | Gets a ride through an app, say |
| 44% | FOGS | 4 | Gets hard to see through, in a way, with "up" |
| 43% | LIE | 3 | You might get a bad one in the rough |
| 42% | TANGLY | 6 | Like hair that's hard to get a comb through |
| 41% | REVENUE | 7 | Money a business gets through normal operations |
| 39% | AGING | 5 | Getting on in years, and a process that everyone in the world goes through (:-o) |