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

If we hadn’t already predicted she was going to break it for Richard Gere’s financier, this bubbly moment was our crystal ball glimpse into their eventual happy ending.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 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 said sometimes it’s hard to plan for everything, unless you have a crystal ball and can see the future, and if I knew someone with a crystal ball, he would love to borrow it.

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate