crystal ball

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“He who lives by the crystal ball learns to eat ground glass,” as they say.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

“If I had a crystal ball I could tell you now what is going to happen,” Heimo Schirgi, the World Cup chief operating officer for FIFA, said Monday.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

And while we don’t possess a crystal ball, we believe that the tourism decline of 2025 could well continue through 2026.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

But on the question of whom President Donald Trump would choose as the next chair of the Federal Reserve, prediction markets dropped the crystal ball, highlighting the inherent limitations of their predictive power.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

The crystal ball was crowded with humans in peculiar caps and wooden shoes.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck