crystal ball
Example Sentences
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But there isn’t yet such a thing as a crystal ball.
From Barron's
But using La Niña as your only crystal ball can prove spectacularly disappointing.
From Los Angeles Times
November’s elections won’t be a crystal ball for the midterms, but they’ll reveal marginal advantages and disadvantages for the parties going into next year’s elections.
Though, with both names on the heels of widely successful projects, it was hardly a “crystal ball” suggestion — it just so happened to be correct.
From Los Angeles Times
Mehta said that the case required him to “gaze into a crystal ball and look to the future,” something he felt was “no judge’s forte.”
From Salon
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