Antonyms for crystal ballcrys·tal ball

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1. crystal ballnoun

   Synonyms:
   showstone, shew stone

2. crystal ballnoun

   A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future.

   The psychic looked into the crystal ball and saw into the future.

   Synonyms:
   shew stone, showstone

3. crystal ballnoun

   (by extension, used mostly in the negative form) A way of seeing into the future.

   If her past is a crystal ball to her future, she will perhaps never be rich, even though she is a good, kind, educated, hard-working person.

   Synonyms:
   showstone, shew stone

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1. crystal ballnoun

   a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers

How to use crystal ball in a sentence?

1. Lorenzo Simonelli:

   The crystal ball for all of us is cloudy, but we know energy requirements are still going to increase, globally. The fundamentals are there for energy.

2. Hoshiyar Zebari:

   After all these years nobody wants to see a caliphate of hatred. They are no longer an existential threat to our existence. They are still a very very serious threat, how long it will take? I don’t have the crystal ball to tell you. It will take some time. I think we are winning, they are losing.

3. Ian Barr:

   We’re always playing catch-up with these viruses, we have to crystal ball what’s happening and what’s going happen.

4. Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter:

   Nobody has a crystal ball with what's going to happen in the weather and fire activity going forward, for September through December the entire state shows drier, more wind events, and large fire activity to continue.

5. Robert DePalma:

   The fossil record gives us a window into the details of a global-scale hazard and the reaction of Earth's biota to that hazard, it gives us... a crystal ball looking back in time and enables us to apply that to today's ecological and environmental crisis.

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