crystal ball

Example Sentences

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“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

But unless you have an unusually good crystal ball about when the next bear market will begin, there’s no reason to change your investment strategy for making money in the stock market.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 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

He wiped it with the back of his hand and stared into the cup like it was a crystal ball.

From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds