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vignette

[vin-yet] / vɪnˈjɛt /
NOUN
story
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NOUN
scenario
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Performance and illusion are recurring themes: A woman is sawed in half in a depiction of classic stagecraft; elsewhere a juggler manipulates ovoids that each contain an everyday vignette.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

“Our results here show that, for the same client vignette, AI advisers recommend safer portfolios than human advisers and that … scenario cues, not adviser idiosyncrasies, drive the difference.”

From MarketWatch Nov. 12, 2025

This was one vignette from the striking array of the world's biggest Silicon Valley tech companies turning on the transatlantic investment tap.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2025

The standout, though, and probable winner, is Nebojša Slijepčević’s masterfully tense Bosnian war vignette “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent,” set in the grim complacency of a train compartment.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

This vignette shows that even belonging to the same professional club as a writer is no protection against her curse of knowledge.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

In the process, McElwee creates a patchwork tapestry, comprised of vignettes across time.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

There will be a nod to the 250th celebrations with historical "vignettes" between bouts, Axios reported, and there will also be military bands, a US military flyover and parachute display and a 10-minute fireworks finale.

From Barron's Jun. 14, 2026

“Trainspotting” doesn’t require a plot; like its source novel by Irvine Welsh, it’s a series of deeply observed vignettes or sketches.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

Those vignettes became source material for her new music.

From BBC Apr. 2, 2026

They were pictures of lovers in lonely parks, with vignettes of hearts pierced with arrows and golden ribbons held by doves.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His grand themes are all there: a two-zone transfer is a bus ticket, sure — but also passage between realms of Black and white; haves and have-nots; harshly lit reality and vignetted dreams.

From New York Times Apr. 6, 2022

As such, “Booth” has the feel of an oft-repeated family legend — vignetted at the edges, full of portents, omens and mysterious reversals of fate.

From New York Times Mar. 11, 2022

The second filter vignetted around the subject to make them fit in the brandy snifter.

From New York Times Jan. 9, 2022

Its political admirals, mercilessly vignetted by Larrabee, were boneheads or worse.

From Time Magazine Archive

The “process man” and the clever manipulator on the plates, will do the rest, producing pictures vignetted, if desired, as overleaf.

From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Blackburn, Henry

We sent the picture above to Sony, and Rob Brennan, Product Technology Manager at Sony, told The Verge that “Just from this picture alone, this amount of vignetting is within acceptable tolerances.”

From The Verge Aug. 4, 2022

Also, there’s some vignetting in the corners and along sections of the edges of my M9 review unit.

From The Verge Aug. 4, 2022

Specifically, Lodi notes that they can cause issues such as blurring, distortion, and vignetting.

From Slate May 25, 2018

One last downside: In certain photos, when I adjusted the overall contrast in Photoshop later, I noticed some vignetting — darkened areas at the corners.

From New York Times Jun. 27, 2012

The illustration is much relieved by vignetting and leaving out: almost the only chance for effect that the artist has by the screened process.

From The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Blackburn, Henry




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