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

“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

The finished product was more like a compilation of shot-for-shot music video and live performance recreations, stitched together with vignettes depicting a tepid version of Jackson’s real, tumultuous life.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 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

Those vignettes became source material for her new music.

From BBC ● Apr. 2, 2026

Kacie Rose, a former professional dancer, shares vignettes of her new life in Italy that she compiled into a bestselling memoir, “You Deserve Good Gelato.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 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

The type of fragment I am talking about in this chapter, however, is actually finished, so far as the author's handling is concerned; but unfinished in detail and setting, or with only a vignetted background.

From The Lure of the Pen A book for Would-Be Authors by Flora Klickmann

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

I saw at once that the peculiarities of the design, of the vignetting, and of the frame, must have instantly dispelled such idea—must have prevented even its momentary entertainment.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Nathaniel Parker Willis