troughs

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Examples

I felt I could no longer take the roller-coaster of emotions of travel, its surges of exaltation, its troughs of despondency, it's large stretches of boredom and inconvenience. Geoff Dyer

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. Ricky Gervais

I think the rocket business is quite cyclic. There are a great many peaks and troughs. Elon Musk

There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance. Ben Kingsley

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs. Graham Joyce

I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily. Gina McKee