vignette

A vignette about Laika, the Soviet space dog, sets up a futurist fantasia in which a dogs-only space colony finally breaks their reliance on humans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Erivo follows this vignette and many others with questions that engage the reader in the conversation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025

“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

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

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

As he works through this series of vignettes and short biographies, however, “Making Art and Making a Living” offers no argument.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Those vignettes became source material for her new music.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026

Gay kisses and scenes of queer physical affection aren’t exactly titillating, or worse, made into inspiring coming-out vignettes perfectly primed for Pride season watchlists.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

These brief vignettes were told from the point of view of 2112's anonymous protagonist.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

Here his animals and little vignetted tailpieces of observations in the country announced an original subject for illustration and a fresh treatment of wood engraving, although some designs were still copied from earlier models.

From Why Bewick Succeeded A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Kainen, Jacob

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

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

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

His definition and vignetting of separate scenes, incidents, and characters is so sharp and complete that he finds a difficulty in combining them.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George