crystal ball

Example Sentences

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But you didn’t have a crystal ball, and you played by the rules of the game.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 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

We were far from Aunt Fannie Fenimore’s crystal ball.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck