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crystal ball
noun
- a ball of clear crystal, glass, or the like, used in crystal gazing.
- a method or means of predicting the future.
crystal ball
noun
- the glass globe used in crystal gazing
Word History and Origins
Origin of crystal ball1
Idioms and Phrases
A means of predicting the future, as in So what does your crystal ball say about the coming election? The term is a figurative use of the crystal or glass ball used by fortune-tellers. [c. 1900]Example Sentences
If they’d had access to a crystal ball at the time, Vox Media might have chosen a different month to launch its first party data solution, Forte.
Obviously, if I had a crystal ball and knew what was going to happen, there’s many things I would’ve changed.
Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang doesn’t need a crystal ball to see where artificial intelligence will be used in the future.
The big question, of course, is what happens next, and none of us has a crystal ball.
Naturally, the Cullinan includes a crystal ball that shows the future.
The two crystal ball gazers have been engaged in a running battle on Twitter, on their own websites, and in the media at large.
Doritos: Crystal Ball Year: 2009 Ad Meter Score: 8.46 Kellogg Grade: A Share Price Change: 1.88 percent 3.
Peter Lauria gazes into his crystal ball for these and more forecasts for the coming year.
“My crystal ball was set back 15 years,” Rodriguez said ruefully.
Exception: this gem of juvenile male humor, featuring a not-so-magic crystal ball.
He unrolled it, and within that again found a little crystal ball about the size of a dove's egg.
The crystal ball became as it were a ball of fire revolving within itself.
He lifted down a crystal ball on a small black polished wooden stand and handed it over.
I should like the crystal ball to show me what my husband will be like.
There was no hidden secret which that crystal ball could not tell.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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