Synonyms for crystal ball
crys·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

Princeton's WordNet

1. crystal ballnoun

   a glass or crystal globe used in crystal gazing by fortunetellers

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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. 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.

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. Todd Vachon:

   I don't have a crystal ball, but unless UPS is reading the writing on the wall, a strike is almost certain.

5. Scott Swift:

   I wish I had a crystal ball that I look into the future and see. I am concerned about the forces of destabilization that appear to be more current here in the theater, and that's what I hear from my friends in the region as I communicate with them…The lack of certainty - the growing uncertainty of those countries in the region.