vignette
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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
“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
In the film’s final vignette, the viewer comes to understand that Gladys has no true motive.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 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
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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
“This Is Not About Running” is told through vignettes in very short chapters, which gives the story little narrative flow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Those vignettes became source material for her new music.
From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026
It’s funny the way I remember my time in France: little vignettes, discombobulated, a narrative drifting along an ocean, a series of scenes that meant nothing until they meant something.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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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
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The sun shone on my second visit and brightened the spring tints of the trees on Hotoke Iwa, which was vignetted by a frame of dark cryptomeria.
From Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
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
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 Henry Blackburn
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